Hi, wouldn't it make sence to number the seg1 seg2 files like hadoop numbers the parts
i.e. seg0000001 seg0000002 etc. Further it would make sence for me to be able to put some date / timestamp part in the base path, so that for example every day the seg counter is reset and the files are written in one directory per day. On hadoop side a map reduce job can than merge the part files together if they are too small, while respecting the order just by sorting them alphabetically. Regards Martin
