1. A method, comprising: in response to a consumer job starting to read one or more files in a big data distributed file system having multiple nodes, retrieving node group information for the one or more files to be read, wherein the node group information identifies nodes from the multiple nodes on which a producer job wrote the one or more files; and assigning the consumer job to the nodes identified by the node group information to allow for local reading of the one or more files by the consumer job.