The number of map tasks is normally different from the number of reduce tasks.
Coding as you planned would limit the flexibility of hadoop.

On Saturday, February 13, 2010, ANKITBHATNAGAR <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I was working on a scenario where in I am generating a file in close()
> function of my Map implementation.
>
> Since Map execution are worked concurrently, this file is overwritten.
>
> I was wondering how to name this file uniquely per map execution basic and
> then read in configure() function of reduce.
>
> I could give a task id as name of the file but dont know how will I read the
> same file in configure() as the task id would have changed
>
> Ankit
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