Maha, Remember that the mapper is not running on the same machine as the main class. Thus local files aren't where you think.
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:06 PM, maha <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Why the following lines would work in the main class (WordCount) and not > in Mapper ? even though " myconf " is set in WordCount to point to the > getConf() returned object. > > try{ > FileSystem hdfs = FileSystem.get(wc.WordCount.myconf); > hdfs.copyFromLocalFile(new Path("/Users/file"), new > Path("/tmp/file")); > }catch(Exception e) { System.err.print("\nError");} > > > Also, the print statement will never print on console unless it's in my > run function.. > > Appreciate it :) > > Maha > >
