The "append" feature is being worked on. It will probably get into the 0.19 release. details here http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1700
thanks, dhruba On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Tzury Bar Yochay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > quoting from the documentation at > http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/hdfs_design.html > > Simple Coherency Model > > HDFS applications need a write-once-read-many access model for files. A file > once created, written, and closed need not be changed. This assumption > simplifies data coherency issues and enables high throughput data access. A > MapReduce application or a web crawler application fits perfectly with this > model. There is a plan to support appending-writes to files in the future. > > > I was wondering whether this plan ever implemented. > > appending-writes are must in my application. and reliable,searchable and > mapreduable distributed system is a must as well. > thus I looked at hadoop thinking it might be the right platform for the > project. > > -- > Tzury Bar Yochay >
