You can manually write the map output to a new file, there are a number of examples of opening a sequence file and writing to it on the web or in the example code for various hadoop books.
You can also disable the removal of intermediate data, which will result in potentially large amounts of data being left in the mapred.local.dir. On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Gordon Linoff <glin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am starting to learn Hadoop, using the Yahoo virtual machine with version > 0.18. > > My question is rather simple. I would like to execute a map/reduce job. > In > addition to getting the results from the reduce, I would also like to save > the intermediate results from the map in another HDFS file. Is this > possible? > > --gordon > -- Pro Hadoop, a book to guide you from beginner to hadoop mastery, http://www.amazon.com/dp/1430219424?tag=jewlerymall www.prohadoopbook.com a community for Hadoop Professionals
