Re: merging into MapFile

2008-12-10 Thread yoav.morag
s to <= 64MB (what i did > and recommend) > or reconfigure your hadoop. > > > dfs.block.size > 67108864 > The default block size for new files. > > > do something like > cat * | rotatelogs ./merged/m 64M > it will merge and chop the data fo

merging into MapFile

2008-12-09 Thread yoav.morag
hi all - can anyone comment on the performance cost of merging many small files into an increasingly large MapFile ? will that cost be dependent on the size of the larger MapFile (since I have to rewrite it) or is there a built-in strategy to split it into smaller parts, affecting only those which