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Harsh J commented on MAPREDUCE-4630: ------------------------------------ I agree with Alex. I haven't seen much use-case for this (of overriding dfs.blocksize many times in general), and besides, the config param is pretty well known so can be set via -D opts or via Configuration.set(…)? Are these options not sufficient Radim? > API for setting dfs.block.size > ------------------------------ > > Key: MAPREDUCE-4630 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-4630 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Improvement > Environment: Hadoop 2 > Reporter: Radim Kolar > Priority: Minor > > Add API for setting block size in Tool while creating MR job. > I propose > FileOutputFormat.setBlockSize(Job job, int blocksize); > which sets dfs.block.size -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira