Github user tgravescs commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1242#issuecomment-47550102
The hadoop code for generating the data is out of date. It might not matter
for your purposes, but if you want the up to date one look at
sortbenchmark.org. I had filed jira to update Hadoop one but haven't gotten to
it.
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