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Yuri Pradkin commented on HADOOP-4012:
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OK, it looks like this patch is in reasonable shape now. The failing tests
seem to be the ones failing for everybody else.
We've been using an older version of the patch for some time now with a custom
input format and have had consistent results.
Not to mention the speedup due to parallelism.
Can one of the committers please have a look?
> Providing splitting support for bzip2 compressed files
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-4012
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4012
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: io
> Affects Versions: 0.21.0
> Reporter: Abdul Qadeer
> Assignee: Abdul Qadeer
> Fix For: 0.21.0
>
> Attachments: Hadoop-4012-version1.patch, Hadoop-4012-version2.patch,
> Hadoop-4012-version3.patch, Hadoop-4012-version4.patch,
> Hadoop-4012-version5.patch, Hadoop-4012-version6.patch,
> Hadoop-4012-version7.patch, Hadoop-4012-version8.patch
>
>
> Hadoop assumes that if the input data is compressed, it can not be split
> (mainly due to the limitation of many codecs that they need the whole input
> stream to decompress successfully). So in such a case, Hadoop prepares only
> one split per compressed file, where the lower split limit is at 0 while the
> upper limit is the end of the file. The consequence of this decision is
> that, one compress file goes to a single mapper. Although it circumvents the
> limitation of codecs (as mentioned above) but reduces the parallelism
> substantially, as it was possible otherwise in case of splitting.
> BZip2 is a compression / De-Compression algorithm which does compression on
> blocks of data and later these compressed blocks can be decompressed
> independent of each other. This is indeed an opportunity that instead of one
> BZip2 compressed file going to one mapper, we can process chunks of file in
> parallel. The correctness criteria of such a processing is that for a bzip2
> compressed file, each compressed block should be processed by only one mapper
> and ultimately all the blocks of the file should be processed. (By
> processing we mean the actual utilization of that un-compressed data (coming
> out of the codecs) in a mapper).
> We are writing the code to implement this suggested functionality. Although
> we have used bzip2 as an example, but we have tried to extend Hadoop's
> compression interfaces so that any other codecs with the same capability as
> that of bzip2, could easily use the splitting support. The details of these
> changes will be posted when we submit the code.
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