Can you clarify the requirement "processed first"? Maps run in parallel without any ordering guarantees. If you want to affect the mapping file->split number, you can implement your own getSplits in the custom input format and return splits ordered anyway your like.
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Nishanth S <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey folks, > > Is their a way to sort the input splits in map reduce.We have a case > where there are two files file1 and file2 in the input directory.Since we > have custominputformat which has issplittable return false always each > of these files would be processed by a different mapper.How could I make > sure that file1 is processed before file2(I want the oldest file to be > processed first).Is this possible?. > > Thanks, > Nishan >
