Point taken.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:33 AM, M. C. Srivas <mcsri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, don't mean to say you don't know mmap or didn't do cool things in the > past. > But you will see why anyone would've interpreted this original post, given > the title of the posting and the following wording, to mean "can I mmap > files that are in hdfs" > 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? > >