On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 3:22 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems like the file expects the records to be entered in a sorted order > inside of it doing the sorting internally[1].
Yes, that's right. The normal use is as the output of a MapReduce job, where key/value pairs arrive in sorted order. If you think the javadoc should make this more explicit, please file a bug report. Thanks, Doug
