That would be a fine way to solve the problem. You can also pass data in to the maps via the key since the key has little use for most maps.
On 12/25/07 8:09 PM, "Norbert Burger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How should I approach this? Is overriding InputFileFormat so that the > header data is tacked onto each InputSplit the best way to approach > this?
