This seems to be the case. I don't think there is any specific reason
not to read across the block boundary...
Even if HDFS does read across the blocks, it is still not a good idea to
ignore the JavaDoc for read(). If you want all the bytes read, then you
should have a while loop or one of
This kind of partial read is often used by the OS to return to your
application as soon as possible if trying to read more data would block, in
case you can begin computing on the partial data. In some applications, it's
not useful, but when you can begin computing on partial data, it allows the
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Matei Zaharia ma...@cloudera.com wrote:
This kind of partial read is often used by the OS to return to your
application as soon as possible if trying to read more data would block, in
case you can begin computing on the partial data. In some applications,
it's
