> Sequence Block compression happens on smaller chunks (around 1MB I think) > so the compression ration would be smaller than compressing complete file. >
Is there a configuration parameter which controls this? Is it io.seqfile.compress.blocksize? It was set to 1,000,000 in hadoop-default.xml, which is approx 1MB. Saurabh. -- http://nandz.blogspot.com http://foodieforlife.blogspot.com
