Is the compression done on the client side or on the server side? If I run
hadoop fs -text then is this client decompressing the file for me?

Mohit,

HDFS as a service/server does not yet do compression/decompression. It
is indeed the client that does it each time.

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Mohit Anchlia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is the compression done on the client side or on the server side? If I run
> hadoop fs -text then is this client decompressing the file for me?

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Harsh J