There might be a better way... but I wonder if it might be possible to access the node where the block is store and read it from the local file system rather than from HDFS.
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:05 AM, Thodoris Zois <z...@ics.forth.gr> wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a file on HDFS that is divided into 10 blocks (partitions). > > Is there any way to retrieve data from a specific block? (e.g: using > the blockID). > > Except that, is there any option to write the contents of each block > (or of one block) into separate files? > > Thank you very much, > Thodoris > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@hadoop.apache.org > >