On Aug 27, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Ted Dunning wrote: > There is no way to do this for standard Apache Hadoop.
Sure there is.
You can build a custom conf dir and point it to that. You *always*
have that option for client settable options as a work around for lack of
features/bugs.
1. Copy $HADOOP_CONF_DIR or $HADOOP_HOME/conf to a dir
2. modify the hdfs-site.xml to have your new block size
3. Run the following:
HADOOP_CONF_DIR=mycustomconf hadoop dfs -put file dir
Convenient? No. Doable? Definitely.
