You can set it on a per-file basis if you'd like the control. The data structures associated with files allow these to be individually controlled. But there's also a create() call that only accepts the Path to open as an argument. This uses the configuration file defaults. This use case is considerably more common in user applications.
- Aaron On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:15 AM, hadooprcoks <hadoopro...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi,I was looking at the FileSystem API and have couple of quick questions > for experts. > In the FileSystem.create() call two of the parameters are bufferSize and > blockSize. > > I understand they correspond to io.file.buffer.size and dfs.block.size > properties in the config files. > > My question is - do we expect that applications can provide different > values > for them on a per file basis or usually its a cluster wide setting ? > > Thanks > -Vineet >
