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churro morales commented on HBASE-15482:
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I think Liyin is referring to only those InputFormats that deal specifically
with store files, if the Input format scans meta, that should still be fine.
We encountered the same issue when dealing with snapshots because when you have
a million store files and you calculate the block distribution of each one that
creates quite a bit of stress on the namenode.
> Provide an option to skip calculating block locations for SnapshotInputFormat
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> Key: HBASE-15482
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15482
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mapreduce
> Reporter: Liyin Tang
> Priority: Minor
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> When a MR job is reading from SnapshotInputFormat, it needs to calculate the
> splits based on the block locations in order to get best locality. However,
> this process may take a long time for large snapshots.
> In some setup, the computing layer, Spark, Hive or Presto could run out side
> of HBase cluster. In these scenarios, the block locality doesn't matter.
> Therefore, it will be great to have an option to skip calculating the block
> locations for every job. That will super useful for the Hive/Presto/Spark
> connectors.
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