thanks, I've read but that is about compressing a files, I'm talking about compressing folders with subfolders and files. In fact i have a mapreduce task for compressing a folder: https://github.com/flopezluis/testing-hadoop
2012/6/29 madhu phatak <phatak....@gmail.com> > Hi, > Please refer to the discussion here > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7153087/hadoop-compress-file-in-hdfs > > > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Félix López <jaaaelpum...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> The folder contains files with text and other folders with text files. >> The text is not key/value, it's just text. Something like this: >> Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting >> industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dumm... >> >> I'm thinking about creating a new Hdfs command to zip in hadoop, but i'm >> not sure whether hadoop distributes the execution, because otherwise it may >> takes a long time and very cpu consuming. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks >> >> >> > > > -- > https://github.com/zinnia-phatak-dev/Nectar > > -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/flopezluis It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission ".....it doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and either should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because...All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are." --Mark Cuban" "Always be the worst guy in every band you're in." If you're the best guy there, you need to be in a different band. And I think that works for almost everything that's out there as well." Pat Metheny
