The program can create the file just as easily as the shell commands that I gave you. You can open an output stream to a file in the hadoop file system and write the seed data.
On 12/17/07 7:33 PM, "Jim the Standing Bear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ted, > > I see... I was hoping that the program could create it instead of > having the user do it, but I guess hadoop is not really meant to be > interactive/user-friendly. > > About the second step and why I didn't say what input format it > used... In the code, I did specify the format. However, it depended > upon the file output formats I used in the first step. Because I > got so confused, I thought it would be more important to nail down the > correct output format in the first step. > > -- Jim > > On Dec 17, 2007 10:24 PM, Ted Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I was saying that you didn't do it and probably should have. >> >> >> >> On 12/17/07 7:12 PM, "Jim the Standing Bear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> When you said "You never set the input format in the second step", >>> were you instructing me NOT to set input format in the second step, or >>> were you asking me why I never set it in the second step? >>> >>> >>> On Dec 17, 2007 10:09 PM, Ted Dunning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> You never set the input format in the second step. >>>> >>>> But I think you want to stay with your KeyValueTextInputFormat for input >>>> and >>>> TextOutputFormat for output. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On 12/17/07 7:03 PM, "Jim the Standing Bear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> So that's a part of the reason that I am having trouble connecting the >>>>> pipes - it seems to me that SequenceFile and SequenceFileOutputFormat >>>>> are talking about two different kinds of "sequence files"... >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
