Thanks, Stack. But, I think I want to know what's different between SequenceFile.Writer.sync() and syncFs() (HDFS-200) ? Could someone tell me what does the HLog sync with something?
Shen On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:59 AM, ChingShen <chingshenc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Thanks, Jean-Daniel > > > > I haven't patched yet, but what intention does it just write a marker > > into the file? > > > > IIRC, its so that if the file is corrupted, the parse can be picked up > at other side of the corrupt section as soon as the parse trips over > the next marker. > St.Ack >