If you want to take a look o.a.c.hadoop.ColumnFamilyRecordReader.getSplits() is the function that gets the splits.
Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 3 Aug 2011, at 16:18, Patrik Modesto wrote: > On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 23:10, Jeremiah Jordan > <jeremiah.jor...@morningstar.com> wrote: >> If you have RF=1, taking one node down is going to cause 25% of your >> data to be unavailable. If you want to tolerate a machines going down >> you need to have at least RF=2, if you want to use quorum and have a >> machine go down, you need at least RF=3. > > I know I can have RF > 1 but I have limited resources and I don't care > lossing 25% of the data. RF > 1 basicaly means if a node goes down I > have the data elsewhere, but what I need is if node goes down just > ignore its range. I can handle it in my applications using thrift, but > the hadoop-mapreduce can't handle it. It just fails with "Exception in > thread "main" java.io.IOException: Could not get input splits". Is > there a way to say ignore this range to hadoop? > > Regards, > P.
