RE: Question about

2012-09-12 Thread Charles Baker
Hi Vivian. Take a look at TextInputFormat and the RecordReader classes. This is set via JobConf.setInputFormat(). -Chuck -Original Message- From: Vivi Lang [mailto:sqlxwei...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 5:10 PM To: hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Question about Hi

RE: relative symbolic links in HDFS

2011-10-31 Thread Charles Baker
n Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Charles Baker wrote: > Hey guys. Thanks for the replies. Fully qualified symbolic links are > problematic in that when we wish to restore a directory structure containing > symlinks from HDFS to local filesystem, the relativity is lost. For instance: >

RE: relative symbolic links in HDFS

2011-10-31 Thread Charles Baker
gt; that use FileSystem to access paths with symlinks will fail. > > Btw when looking at the code you pointed out I noticed a bug in link > resolution (HADOOP-7783), thanks! > > Thanks, > Eli > > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Charles Baker wrote: >> Hey gu

RE: relative symbolic links in HDFS

2011-10-28 Thread Charles Baker
Oh, and sorry about the signature. The mailserver injects that automatically... -Chuck -Original Message- From: Charles Baker [mailto:cba...@sdl.com] Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 9:47 AM To: hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: relative symbolic links in HDFS Hey guys. We are in the

relative symbolic links in HDFS

2011-10-28 Thread Charles Baker
Hey guys. We are in the early stages of planning and evaluating a hadoop 'cold-storage' cluster for medium to long term storage of mixed data (small to large files, zips, tar, etc...) and tons of symlinks. We do realize that small files aren't ideal in HDFS but it's for long-term storage and beats