Hello Everyone, I'm new to hadoop and tried to compress few files, using a streaming job. Used streaming job mentioned in this post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7153087/hadoop-compress-file-in-hdfs
Used bzip format instead. After they compressed, because there were too many small files, I did hadoop fs -cat /input/* | hadoop fs -put - /output/day1 Tried to build an external table from this day1 file and i get weird characters.Renamed the file to day1.bz and then tried to rebuild table but still get weird characters. Realized I messed up pretty bad. Is there anyway to salvage this data ? Is there anyway to use this compressed file /output/day1 at all ? Thanks in advance.
