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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-1824:
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Sorry, I wasn't clear. I was thinking we might try using, instead of minizip,
the source code for the unzip command line executable,
http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html, which uses file-io directly, but not in too
many places.
> want InputFormat for zip files
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> Key: HADOOP-1824
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1824
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: mapred
> Affects Versions: 0.15.2
> Reporter: Doug Cutting
> Attachments: ZipInputFormat_fixed.patch
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> HDFS is inefficient with large numbers of small files. Thus one might pack
> many small files into large, compressed, archives. But, for efficient
> map-reduce operation, it is desireable to be able to split inputs into
> smaller chunks, with one or more small original file per split. The zip
> format, unlike tar, permits enumeration of files in the archive without
> scanning the entire archive. Thus a zip InputFormat could efficiently permit
> splitting large archives into splits that contain one or more archived files.
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