Hi, The Java API offers a DistributedCache class which lets you do this. The usage is detailed at http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/api/org/apache/hadoop/filecache/DistributedCache.html
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 5:11 PM, i...@christianherta.de <i...@christianherta.de> wrote: > Hello, > I have written a chain of map-reduce jobs which creates a Mapfile. I want > to use the Mapfile in a proximate map-reduce job via distributed cache. > Therefore I have to create an archive file of the folder with holds the > /data and /index files. > > In the documentation and in the Book "Hadoop the definite guide" there are > only examples how this is done on the command line. Is this possible in > HDFS via the Hadoop Java Api, too? > > P.S.: To distribute the files separately is not a solution. They would go > in different temporary folders. > > Thanks in advance > Christian -- Harsh J
