Hello,

Really interesting question.
The answer is this jira issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-4555
and this diff: 
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/camel-commits/201110.mbox/%[email protected]%3E

It would be really great if
1. the component will make this feature optional to be able to stream 
multigigabyte data from within hdfs directly
on the file by file basis
2. the component will merge the files on the fly without any intermediate 
storage.

Just raised the JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-8542

Regards,
Sergey

> Hi, all!

> I'm looking at ways to use hdfs2 component to read files stored in a Hadoop
> directory. As a quite new Hadoop user I assume that simplest way is when
> data is stored in normal file format.

> I was looking at code in
> 'org.apache.camel.component.hdfs2.HdfsFileType#NORMAL_FILE' class that is
> responsible for creating the input stream and noticed that it will copy the
> whole file to the local file system (in temp file) before opening input
> stream (the case when using 'hdfs://' URI).

> I wonder what is the reason behind this? Isn't it possible that file can be
> very large and then this operation will be quite costly? Maybe I missing
> some basic restrictions on using normal files in Hadoop?

> Thanks in advance
> Alexey



-- 
Best regards,
 Sergey                            mailto:[email protected]

Reply via email to