Thanks, Suneel.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Suneel Marthi <suneel_mar...@yahoo.com>wrote:

> The workaround is to add -xm sequential. A MR version of seqdirectory was
> introduced in 0.8 and hence the default execution mode is MR if none is
> specified.
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> On Thursday, March 13, 2014 4:12 PM, Steven Cullens <srcull...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I have a large number of files on the order of kilobytes on my local
> machine that I want to convert to a sequence file on HDFS.  Whenever, I try
> to copy the local files to HDFS, hadoop complains about bad blocks,
> presumably because each block is 64mb and there are more files than blocks.
> In mahout 0.7, I would tell it that the input files are local, like:
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> mahout seqdirectory -i file://<input directory> -o <HDFS directory>
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> But I can't use the same command on Mahout 0.9, where it expects the file
> system to be HDFS.  Is there a workaround to generating the sequence file
> using Mahout 0.9?  Thanks.
>
> Steven
>

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