Github user mateiz commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/376#discussion_r11469892 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/input/WholeTextFileInputFormat.scala --- @@ -44,4 +47,15 @@ private[spark] class WholeTextFileInputFormat extends CombineFileInputFormat[Str context, classOf[WholeTextFileRecordReader]) } + + /** + * Allow minSplits set by end-user in order to keep compatibility with old Hadoop API. + */ + def setMaxSplitSize(context: JobContext, minSplits: Int) { + val files = listStatus(context) + val totalLen = files.map { file => + if (file.isDir) 0L else file.getLen + }.sum + super.setMaxSplitSize(totalLen / (if (minSplits == 0) 1 else minSplits)) --- End diff -- Are you sure this won't create an extra split sometimes due to rounding down? E.g. if the file is 11 bytes and you set minSplits to 2, it will set maxSplitSize to 5, and it will create three splits (5 + 5 + 1 bytes).
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