Yes you can however it will require customization of HDFS. Take a look at HDFS-347 specifically the HDFS-347-branch-20-append.txt patch. I have been altering it for use with HBASE-3529. Note that the patch noted is for the -append branch which is mainly for HBase.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Benson Margulies <bimargul...@gmail.com> wrote: > We have some very large files that we access via memory mapping in > Java. Someone's asked us about how to make this conveniently > deployable in Hadoop. If we tell them to put the files into hdfs, can > we obtain a File for the underlying file on any given node? >
