On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Jason Rutherglen <jason.rutherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? >> >
This features it not yet part of hadoop so doing this is not "convenient".
