Hadoop uses RMI for file copy operations. Clients listen port 50010 for this operation. I assume, it's sending the file as byte stream.
Cheers, Rasit 2009/2/23 Bing TANG <whutg...@gmail.com> > Hi, everyone, > Could somdone tell me the principle of "-file" when using Hadoop > Streaming. I want to ship a big file to Slaves, so how it works? > > Hadoop uses "SCP" to copy? How does Hadoop deal with -file option? > > > -- M. Raşit ÖZDAŞ