I dont think that is possible, can you explain in what scenario you want to have no mappers, only reducers?
Best Regards, Sonal Crux: Reporting for HBase <https://github.com/sonalgoyal/crux> Nube Technologies <http://www.nubetech.co> <http://in.linkedin.com/in/sonalgoyal> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Bejoy KS <bejoy.had...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > I'm having a query here. Is it possible to have no mappers but > reducers alone? AFAIK If we need to avoid the tyriggering of reducers we can > set numReduceTasks to zero but such a setting on mapper wont work. So how > can it be achieved if possible? > > Thank You > > Regards > Bejoy.K.S >