Hello,
I’m new to this mailing list, and this is the first trial of contribution.
We have made a patch that enables multiple map tasks for one large *gzipped*
file. We call the patch RAgzip, which is the abbreviation of Random Access
gzip. It is like HADOOP-3646, which supports a big bzip2 file, and is an
alternative approach of PIG-42 which requires re-compression.
RAgzip uses zlib's inflatePrime function which supports random access on a
gzipped file. Since the inflatePrime is supported from the version of 1.2.2.4,
it requires zlib 1.2.2.4 or higher. (We tested on zlib 1.2.3)
RAgzip requires the preprocessing step that creates an access point (.ap) file,
which is like the index of the gzipped file chunks. (Unfortunately, the
preprocessing step seems to be sequential, that is, we cannot find the way to
parallelize.)
RAgzip splits the gzipped file using the .ap file. To be more specific, RAgzip
reads the .ap file, get the start position and the compression information of a
partition of the gzipped file, decompress the partition and feed it to the map
task input when a map task starts.
In short, you may use RAgzip by just changing InputFormat to RAGZIPInputFormat.
We have made RAgzip in two package types as follows:
1. jar
- does not touch the Hadoop core
- solves zlib version conflict problem by static linking zlib 1.2.3.
2. hadoop patch
- integrated into Hadoop core
- patches ZlibDecompressor.{c,java}: libhadoop.so changes
- the version of zlib on the system should be 1.2.2.4 or higher.
What I want to ask is:
How to contribute RAgzip to Hadoop? May I just submit the hadoop patch (package
2) to JIRA?
I have read http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute and changed our
source code to meet the coding style.
Any comments will be appreciated.
Thank you.
- Daehyun Kim
