I was under the impression that file-append was deprecated in HDFS.
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:13 PM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote: > Shiv, > > HDFS does have file-append support (i.e. add data at end of a > previously closed file). HDFS does not have random-write support (i.e. > writing data at a selected offset in the file). > > What is your use-case though, that you seek to do updates over files > on HDFS? Perhaps you are instead looking for HBase, which has a > slightly different way of storing things but provides updates+versions > in a way over HDFS. > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Siva Gudavalli > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any mechanism on how to do updates to a files on hdfs? > > > > Regards > > shiv > > > > -- > Harsh J >
