Alex, > I don't think this is what I am looking for. Essential, I wish to run both > mapper as well as reducer. But at the same time, i wish to make sure that > the temp files that are used between mappers and reducers are of my choice. > Here, the choice means that I can specify the files in HDFS that can be used > as temp files.
Could you explain why you want to do this ? > > thanks, > --PB. > > On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Alex Loddengaard <a...@cloudera.com> wrote: > >> You could use the HDFS API from within your mapper, and run with 0 >> reducers. >> >> Alex >> >> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Pramy Bhats <pramybh...@googlemail.com >> >wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > I am using hadoop framework for writing MapReduce jobs. I want to >> redirect >> > the output of Map into files of my choice and later use those files as >> > input >> > for Reduce phase. >> > >> > >> > Could you please suggest, how to proceed for it ? >> > >> > thanks, >> > --PB. >> > >> >
