Hi, as @Venkata krishnan pointed out spark does not allow DFOC when append mode is enabled.
in the following class in spark, there is a small check org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.SQLHadoopMapReduceCommitProtocol if (isAppend) { // If we are appending data to an existing dir, we will only use the output committer // associated with the file output format since it is not safe to use a custom // committer for appending. For example, in S3, direct parquet output committer may // leave partial data in the destination dir when the appending job fails. // See SPARK-8578 for more details. However, the reasoning mentioned in the above comments is probably (maybe ryan or steve can confirm this assumption) not applicable to the Netflix commiter uploaded by Ryan blue. Because Ryan's commiter uses multipart upload. So either the whole file is live or nothing is. partial data will not be available for read. Whatever partial data that might have been uploaded to s3 by a failed job will be removed after 1 day (I think this the default in ryan's code. This can be modified using the following config (fs.s3a.multipart.purge.age -- 86400)) So I simply changed the code to if (true) { and rebuilt spark from scratch. everything is working well for me in my initial tests. There is one more problem I wanted to mention. For some reason, I am getting an authentication issue while using ryan's code. I made the following change inside ryan's code. I changed the findClinet method in S3MultiPartOutputCommiter.java (Ryan's repo) to the following protected Object findClient(Path path, Configuration conf) { System.out.println("findinClinet in S3MultipartOutPutCommiter"); //AWSCredentials //AmazonS3Client cli = new AmazonS3Client(new ProfileCredentialsProvider("/home/user/.aws/credentials", "default")); AmazonS3Client cli = new AmazonS3Client(new com.amazonaws.auth.EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider()); //new AmazonS3Client(); System.out.println(cli); return cli; //return new AmazonS3Client(new ProfileCredentialsProvider("/home/user/.aws/credentials", "default")); } We just have to set the s3 credentials in the ~/.bashrc file. Please add anything that I might have missed. Also please look at ryan's talk at spark summit a few days ago ( Imporoving Apache spark with s3 by ryan blue <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgHrff5yAQo> ) -- View this message in context: http://apache-spark-developers-list.1001551.n3.nabble.com/Output-Committers-for-S3-tp21033p21779.html Sent from the Apache Spark Developers List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org