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Mithun Radhakrishnan commented on HADOOP-11794:
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Ah, I finally see. That makes complete sense. Thank you for the pointer to the 
JIRA.

Also, {{CombineFileInputFormat}} might work with {{UniformSizeInputFormat}}, 
but it might not with {{DynamicInputFormat}}. Maybe combining a configurable 
number of blocks (ranges) into splits would be easier to work with.

I see what you're doing, and I agree.

> distcp can copy blocks in parallel
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-11794
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11794
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: tools/distcp
>    Affects Versions: 0.21.0
>            Reporter: dhruba borthakur
>            Assignee: Yongjun Zhang
>         Attachments: MAPREDUCE-2257.patch
>
>
> The minimum unit of work for a distcp task is a file. We have files that are 
> greater than 1 TB with a block size of  1 GB. If we use distcp to copy these 
> files, the tasks either take a long long long time or finally fails. A better 
> way for distcp would be to copy all the source blocks in parallel, and then 
> stich the blocks back to files at the destination via the HDFS Concat API 
> (HDFS-222)



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