Re: MapTask intermediate data

[Amar Kamat]

See HADOOP-2919. It explains the current technique. This will be a good 
starting point.
Amar
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Ahmad Humayun wrote:

Can somebody explain the process of the MapTask writing to the file the
intermediate output. The MapOutputBuffer.mergeParts() seems to be writing
different buffers into the same file. It seems like its also keeping an
index file.
It will be great if somebody can guide me through the process.


regards,