Hi, Faisal, Thanks for your interest in FastBit. If you have the data already in binary format (for the machine you are running on), then you need to put the data files into a directory and place a file named '-part.txt' to tell FastBit the data types of the files. Another thing to note is that the file names are taken to be the column names (and the case of the file name must match the case used in '-part.txt'). A directory is considered a partition of a data table, and a data table could have any number of data partitions.
The file <http://lbl.gov/~kwu/fastbit/doc/dataLoading.html> has a little bit more details. Hope this helps. John On 7/27/12 4:10 PM, S M Faisal wrote: > Hi, > I'm new to FastBit. I see that there are programs for preprocessing > and formatting data so that FastBit can be used. But what if my data > is already in column files in binary format? That is, my data is > already stored as one file per column and in binary format. All that > is missing is the -part.txt file. > > How should I proceed? > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > ----------------------------------- > faisal > > > _______________________________________________ > FastBit-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://hpcrdm.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fastbit-users > _______________________________________________ FastBit-users mailing list [email protected] https://hpcrdm.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fastbit-users
