Also, it only provides access to a local chunk of a file which isn't very useful.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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". >
