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Yu Li updated HADOOP-9863:
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Attachment: HADOOP-9863.patch
> Snappy compression cannot work on Big-Endian 64 bit platform w/o backporting
> HADOOP-8686
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> Key: HADOOP-9863
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9863
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: native
> Affects Versions: 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.2.1
> Reporter: Yu Li
> Assignee: Yu Li
> Labels: native, ppc64, snappy
> Attachments: HADOOP-9863.patch
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> w/o changes made in HADOOP-8686 on SnappyCompressor.c, snappy compression in
> branch-1 hadoop on big endian 64 bit platform (ppc64 for example) will
> generate incorrect .snappy (almost-empty) file because of type casting from
> size_t to jint. Will include more detailed analysis in comments.
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