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John Heidemann commented on HADOOP-1823:
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See JIRA-3646, which takes a version of the ant bzip2 code and makes it a
Hadoop codec.
> want InputFormat for bzip2 files
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> Key: HADOOP-1823
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1823
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: mapred
> Reporter: Doug Cutting
> Attachments: bzip2.jar
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> Unlike gzip, the bzip file format supports splitting. Compression is by
> blocks (900k by default) and blocks are separated by a synchronization marker
> (a 48-bit approximation of Pi). This would permit very large compressed
> files to be split into multiple map tasks, which is not currently possible
> unless using a Hadoop-specific file format.
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