Hey Ben, I just filed this JIRA to add this feature: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2293
If anyone would like to implement this, I would be happy to review it. Thanks a lot, Aaron -- Aaron T. Myers Software Engineer, Cloudera On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Ben Clay <rbc...@ncsu.edu> wrote: > I didn't even think of overriding the config dir. Thanks for the tip! > > -Ben > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Allen Wittenauer [mailto:a...@apache.org] > Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 6:42 PM > To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org > Cc: rbc...@ncsu.edu > Subject: Re: set reduced block size for a specific file > > > 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. > > > >
