Thanks Ted and Jim :) Maha On Feb 18, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Jim Falgout wrote:
> That's right. The TextInputFormat handles situations where records cross > split boundaries. What your mapper will see is "whole" records. > > -----Original Message----- > From: maha [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 1:14 PM > To: common-user > Subject: Quick question > > Hi all, > > I want to check if the following statement is right: > > If I use TextInputFormat to process a text file with 2000 lines (each ending > with \n) with 20 mappers. Then each map will have a sequence of COMPLETE > LINES . > > In other words, the input is not split byte-wise but by lines. > > Is that right? > > > Thank you, > Maha >
