The block size is for allocation not storage on the disk. *Thanks & Regards *
∞ Shashwat Shriparv On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:54 PM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. I failed to add: It should be okay to do if those cases are > true and the cluster seems under-utilized right now. > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 8:29 PM, yypvsxf19870706 > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi harsh > > > > Yep. > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 发自我的 iPhone > > > > 在 2013-5-10，13:27，Harsh J <[email protected]> 写道： > > > >> Are you looking to decrease it to get more parallel map tasks out of > >> the small files? Are you currently CPU bound on processing these small > >> files? > >> > >> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:12 PM, YouPeng Yang <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> hi ALL > >>> > >>> I am going to setup a new hadoop environment, .Because of there > are > >>> lots of small files, I would like to change the default.block.size > to > >>> 16MB > >>> other than adopting the ways to merge the files into large enough > (e.g > >>> using sequencefiles). > >>> I want to ask are there any bad influences or issues? > >>> > >>> Regards > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Harsh J > > > > -- > Harsh J >
