Github user pwendell commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/252#discussion_r11193654
--- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkContext.scala ---
@@ -372,6 +373,37 @@ class SparkContext(
}
/**
+ * Read a directory of text files from HDFS, a local file system
(available on all nodes), or any
+ * Hadoop-supported file system URI. Each file is read as a single
record and returned in a
+ * key-value pair, where the key is the path of each file, the value is
the content of each file.
--- End diff --
Would it make sense to add a warning that says to only use this for small
files? (maybe it's obvious? :)
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