Hi all,
I'm trying to do bulk loading into a table with snappy compression enabled and
I'm getting an exception complaining about missing native snappy library,
namely:
12/01/09 11:16:53 WARN snappy.LoadSnappy: Snappy native library not loaded
Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: java.lang.RuntimeException:
native snappy library not available
at
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.CompressionTest.testCompression(CompressionTest.java:89)
First, to be clear, everything in this chain works fine if I don't use
compression, and using hbase shell to 'put' to the compression-enable table
also works fine.
Here's what I'm doing:
- use importtsv to generate the hfiles. I'm passing -Dhfile.compression=snappy
on the command line, as per a mailing list email from lars g i found while
googling. The import runs without errors, but I don't know how to test whether
the hfiles are actually compressed.
- use completebulkload to move the hfiles into the cluster. This is where I
get the exception. I'm running the command from my os x workstation, targeting
a remote hdfs and hbase (both running on the same cluster).
My environment:
- hbase/hadoop are cdh3u2, fully distributed
- workstation is os x, 10.6
It seems really weird that compression (native compression even moreso) should
be required by a command that is in theory moving files from one place on a
remote filesystem to another. Any light shed would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Oliver
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Oliver Meyn
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