Found related details in the wiki Map Reduce tutorial. In particular, in the section "Task Side-Effect Files".
Thanks all for the various inputs, Naama On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Ted Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes. > > Look on the wiki or in the discussion archives for details of how to get > to > the output directory name. > > > On 3/8/08 1:06 PM, "Naama Kraus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So the configure() method is called when the Reduce task starts, before > the > > actual reduce takes place ? Is that so ? > > Same for map ? > > > > Thanks, Naama > > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Ted Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> This is not difficult to do. Simply open an extra file in the reducers > >> configure method and close it in the close method. Make sure you make > it > >> relative to the map reduce output directory so that you can take > advantage > >> of all of the machinery that handles lost jobs and such. > >> > >> Search the mailing list archives for more details. > >> > >> > > -- oo 00 oo 00 oo 00 oo 00 oo 00 oo 00 oo 00 oo 00 oo 00 oo 00 oo 00 oo 00 oo 00 oo 00 oo "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." (Albert Einstein)
