RandomAccessFile isn't supported directly, but you can seek when reading from files in HDFS (see FSDataInputStream's seek() method). Writing at an arbitrary offset in an HDFS file is not supported however.
Cheers, Tom On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Stas Oskin <stas.os...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > Any idea if RandomAccessFile is going to be supported in HDFS? > > Regards. >