On 8/26/10 9:54 AM, Harsh J wrote:
Well for learning purposes you can delete the output directory before
you submit the job. FileSystem.get(conf).delete(outputPath) I believe
is the snippet for that.

But again, _strictly_ for learning purposes ONLY. Never do this as
your default outputs are always named as part-{r-}00000 onwards and
you will lose them.

Another tip is -- try not to fail; mapper/reducer logic isn't so big
generally, to avoid reviewing before submitting :)

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Mark<[email protected]>  wrote:
  /Exception in thread "main"
org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileAlreadyExistsException: Output directory
playground/output already exi/sts

Is there anyway to force writing to an existing directory? It's quite
annoying to keep specifiying a seperate output directory on each run..
especially when my task fails.

Thanks



Thanks. This is and will be fore learning purposes... hence the mistakes :)

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