hello
I have one use-case that spans multiple map tasks in hadoop environment. I use hadoop 1.2.1 and with 6 task nodes. Each map task writes their output into a file stored in hdfs. This file is shared across all the map tasks. Though, they all computes thier output but some of them are missing in the output file. The output file is an excel file with 8 parameters(headings). Each map task is supposed to compute all these 8 values, and save it as soon as it is computed. This means, the programming logic of a map task opens the file, writes the value and close, 8 times. Can someone give me a hint on whats going wrong here? Is it possible to make more than one map task to write in a shared file in HDFS?
