We read it from the top of the file at start (just the schema bytes) and then initialize the reader.
On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Lior Schachter <lior...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > When writing Avro schema to the a data file, what will be the expected > behavior if the file is used as M/R input. How does the second/third/... > splits get the schema (the schema is always written to the first split) ? > > Thanks, > Lior > > -- Harsh J