Re: TextInputFormat to SequenceFile Output format question

2011-02-25 Thread Harsh J
Unless some transformation can additionally be applied in the Mapper phases for your text input, this operation could be done without MapReduce itself; since your requirement of a single file output will incur unnecessary intermediate-phase costs. On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Mapred Learn wro

TextInputFormat to SequenceFile Output format question

2011-02-25 Thread Mapred Learn
Hi guys, If I have a text file of 10 GB and I want to convert it to sequence file using map-reduce and make filesplits of 1 GB each so that 10 mappers work in parallel on it and convert it to Sequence file output. Can I combine these 10 mapper outputs into 1 sequence file of 10 GB size in reduce st

Catching mapred exceptions on the client

2011-02-25 Thread praveen.peddi
Hello all, I have few mapreduce jobs that I am calling from a java driver. The problem I am facing is that when there is an exception in mapred job, the exception is not propogated to the client so even if first job failed, its going to second job and so on. Is there an another way of catching e