I believe I spoke a little too soon. Looks like Hadoop supports .gz files, not .tgz. :-)
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Ryan LeCompte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm using Hadoop 0.19 and just discovered that it has no problems > processing .tgz files that contain text files. I was under the > impression that it wouldn't be able to break a .tgz file up into > multiple maps, but instead just treat it as 1 map per .tgz file. Was > this a recent change or enhancement? I'm noticing that it is breaking > up the .tgz file into multiple maps. > > Thanks, > Ryan >