On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Mick Semb Wever <m...@apache.org> wrote: > Well your key is a mutable Text object, so i can see some possibility > depending on how hadoop uses these objects.
Yes, that's it exactly. We recently fixed a bug in the demo word_count program for this. Now we do ByteBuffer.wrap(Arrays.copyOf(text.getBytes(), text.getLength())). -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder of DataStax, the source for professional Cassandra support http://www.datastax.com