Re: Regarding loading Image file into HDFS

2012-11-07 Thread Harsh J
Hi, Blocks are split at arbitrary block size boundaries. Readers can read the whole file by reading all blocks together (this is transparently handled by the underlying DFS reader classes itself, a developer does not have to care about it). HDFS does not care about what _type_ of file you store,

Regarding loading Image file into HDFS

2012-11-07 Thread Ramasubramanian Narayanan
Hi, I have basic doubt... How Hadoop splits an Image file into blocks and puts in HDFS? Usually Image file cannot be splitted right how it is happening in Hadoop? regards, Rams