my installation notes for lzo-hadoop (might be wrong or incomplete):

we run centos 5.6 and cdh3

yum -y install lzo
git checkout https://github.com/toddlipcon/hadoop-lzo.git
cd hadoop-lzo
ant
cd build
cp hadoop-lzo-0.4.10/hadoop-lzo-0.4.10.jar /usr/lib/hadoop/lib
cp -r hadoop-lzo-0.4.10/lib/native /usr/lib/hadoop/lib


in core.site.xml:
 <property>
    <name>io.compression.codecs</name>

<value>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec,com.hadoop.compression.lzo.LzoCodec,com.hadoop.compression.lzo.LzopCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.BZip2Codec</value>
    <final>true</final>
  </property>

  <property>
    <name>io.compression.codec.lzo.class</name>
    <value>com.hadoop.compression.lzo.LzoCodec</value>
    <final>true</final>
  </property>


in mapred.site.xml:
  <property>
    <name>mapred.compress.map.output</name>
    <value>true</value>
    <final>false</final>
  </property>

  <property>
    <name>mapred.map.output.compression.codec</name>
    <value>com.hadoop.compression.lzo.LzoCodec</value>
    <final>false</final>
  </property>

  <property>
    <name>mapred.output.compress</name>
    <value>true</value>
    <final>false</final>
  </property>

  <property>
    <name>mapred.output.compression.codec</name>
    <value>com.hadoop.compression.lzo.LzoCodec</value>
    <final>false</final>
  </property>

  <property>
    <name>mapred.output.compression.type</name>
    <value>BLOCK</value>
    <final>false</final>
  </property>

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Alejandro Abdelnur <t...@cloudera.com>wrote:

> Vikas,
>
> You should be able to use the Snappy codec doing some minor tweaks
> from http://code.google.com/p/hadoop-snappy/ until a Hadoop releases
> with Snappy support.
>
> Thxs.
>
> Alejandro.
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Vikas Srivastava
> <vikas.srivast...@one97.net> wrote:
> > Hey ,
> >
> > i just want to use any compression in hadoop so i heard about lzo which
> is
> > best among all the compression (after snappy)
> >
> > please any1 tell me who is already using any kind of compression in
> hadoop
> > 0.20.2
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > With Regards
> > Vikas Srivastava
> >
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