best way to copy all files from a file system to hdfs

[Mark Kerzner]

Hi,

I am writing an application to copy all files from a regular PC to a
SequenceFile. I can surely do this by simply recursing all directories on my
PC, but I wonder if there is any way to parallelize this, a MapReduce task
even. Tom White's books seems to imply that it will have to be a custom
application.

Thank you,
Mark