In reality, it's not so hard to work around. You do have to make two (short) additional jobs. Each one runs one of the mappers, and each just uses an identity reducer. Then, both those outputs are fed into a new job, via an identity mapper, into the reducer. It's not terrible.
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 5:45 PM, ankur goel <[email protected]> wrote: > AFAIK an equivalent does NOT exists. However the problem is tracked by JIRA > - https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1170. Please vote there if > we need a fix in hadoop 20.2 as the patch hasn't gone anywhere.
