Thx, I'll give that a try. Seems to me a method to tell hadoop to split a
file every "n" key/value pairs would be logical. Or maybe a
createSplitBoundary when appending key/value records?
I just want a way, and not a real complex way, of directing the # of maps
and the breakdown of records going to them. Creating a separate file per
record group is too slow for my purposes.
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Lance Amundsen wrote:
> There's lots of references on decreasing DFS block size to increase maps
to
> record ratios. What is the easiest way to do this? Is it possible with
> the standard SequenceFile class?
You could specify the block size in the Configuration parameter to
SequenceFile#createWriter() using the dfs.block.size parameter. But if
you simply want to create sub-block-size splits, then increasing the
number of map tasks should do that.
Doug
