I believe you are right. It might help to check out the Thrift documentation at http://wiki.apache.org/thrift/ and then enhance the hadoop.thriftfs API to store/retrieve bytes.
thanks dhruba 2009/7/22 Jürgen Kaatz <[email protected]> > Hi, > > I try to copy a local 'gz' file via the HDFS Thrift method 'write' to HDFS. > Unfortunately the method accepts only a 'String' as data and converts this > to UTF8. I need t transfer bytes for the gz file. > > Can anybody help me? > > Juergen > >
