I did not get your complete idea here but before that, file will be splitted into blocks. Then how will you extract ? Why con't you create tar file and one index file which will maintain index of each file..something like this?
________________________________ From: Sesha Kumar [sesha...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:24 PM To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Data processing in DFSClient Sorry for the delay. I'm trying to implement an IEEE paper which combines a bunch of files into a single file and when the file is requested the datanode extracts the desired file from the block and sends the file to DFSClient.
