RE: Block creation in HDFS

2015-02-17 Thread Gangumalla, Uma
, 2015 11:14 PM To: hdfs-dev Subject: Re: Block creation in HDFS Hi, Thanks Vinay for your response. I dont need blocks of variable size. But setting only the block size probably wont help in my case. Let me give an example to explain what I am trying to do. Let say the main file has 12 integers 1

Re: Block creation in HDFS

2015-02-17 Thread Abhishek Das
Hi, Thanks Vinay for your response. I dont need blocks of variable size. But setting only the block size probably wont help in my case. Let me give an example to explain what I am trying to do. Let say the main file has 12 integers 1 to 12. The block size is such that each block will have 3 integ

Re: Block creation in HDFS

2015-02-17 Thread Vinayakumar B
Hi abhishek, Is Your partitions of same sizes? If yes, then you can set that as block size. If not you can use the latest feature.. variable block size. To verify your use case. You can close the current block after each partition data is written and append to new block for new partition data. Thi