Yes, you can. Use file:///full-path-name. You may not get more than one map job though.
Jon On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Mehmet Simsek <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi > > I want to bulk load from local file to hbase table. Can I load file rows > to hbase table without importing to hdfs. Hbase import tool reads data from > hdfs. How can I implement MR job reading local file and writing hbase table? > > Now,I'm doing bulk loading in steps > > 1) load file to hdfs > 2) run MR job to load file lines to hbase table > > There are two loading processes. Is there a problem in this approach? > > > > M.S
