Dear all,
1) When we don't set the reducer class in driver program, IdentityReducer is invoked. 2) When we set setNumReduceTasks(0), no reducer, even IdentityReducer is invoked. Now, in the second scenario, we observed that the output is part-m-xx format(instead of part-r-xx format) , which shows the map output. But we know that the output of Map is always written to intermediate local file system. So who/which class is responsible for taking these intermediate Map outputs from local file system and writes to HDFS ? Does this particular class performs this write operation only when setNumReduceTasks is set to zero? Best, Ravion
