That's pre-processing. I.e., yes, before you run your job, when you
push the file from local file system into HDFS then it is reading from a
single machine.
However, presumably the processing your job does is the (far) more
lengthy activity, and so running the job can take much less time if the
data is in hdfs.
DR
On 05/19/2014 10:27 AM, Steve Lewis wrote:
I understand that although I can write an InputFormat / splitter which
starts with a file in NFS not HDFS.
Also when I count import to hdfs as a part of processing haven't I gone to
a single machine to read all data?
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 2:30 PM, David Rosenstrauch <dar...@darose.net>wrote:
The reason why you want to copy to hdfs first is that hdfs splits the data
and distributes it across the nodes in the cluster. So if your input data
is large, you'll get much better efficiency/speed in processing it if
you're processing it in a distributed manner. (I.e., multiple machines
each processing a piece of it - multiple mappers.) I'd think that keeping
the in NFS would be quite slow.
HTH,
DR
On 05/15/2014 04:45 PM, Steve Lewis wrote:
I have a medium size data set in the terrabytes range that currently lives
in the nfs file server of a medium institution. Every few months we want
to
run a chain of five Hadoop jobs on this data.
The cluster is medium sized - 40 nodes about 200 simultaneous jobs.
The
book says copy the data to HDFS and run the job. If I consider copy to
hdfs
and the first mapper as a single task I wonder if it is not as easy to
have
a custom reader reading from the NFS file system as a local file and skip
the step of copying to hadoop.
While the read to the mapper may be slower, dropping the copy to hdfs
could well make up the difference. Assume that after the job runs the data
will be deleted from hdfs - the nfs system is the primary source and that
cannot change. Also the job is not I/O limited - there is significant
computation at each step
My questions are
1) are my assumptions correct and not copying the data may save time?
2) would 200 Hadoop jobs overwhelm a medium sized nfs system?
