The file will not appear to exist at all until the writer is done. If you jus tlist the directory, you will see the file appear.
OR... You could use an out-of-band signal from the writer to the reader. You don't have to use Hadoop for everything. It is only intended to do the things that you can't do otherwise, not replace things you can already do. On 11/17/07 3:17 AM, "j2eeiscool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So how does the Reader know that the Writer is done writing the data (my > requirement is that the Reader grab the data asap)?
