Hi,

 I have basic doubt... How Hadoop splits an Image file into blocks and puts
in HDFS? Usually Image file cannot be splitted right how it is happening in
Hadoop?

regards,
Rams

Hi,

Blocks are split at arbitrary block size boundaries. Readers can read
the whole file by reading all blocks together (this is transparently
handled by the underlying DFS reader classes itself, a developer does
not have to care about it).

HDFS does not care about what _type_ of file you store, its agnostic
and just splits it based on the block size. Its up to the apps to not
split a reader across blocks if it can't be parallelized.

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Ramasubramanian Narayanan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  I have basic doubt... How Hadoop splits an Image file into blocks and puts
> in HDFS? Usually Image file cannot be splitted right how it is happening in
> Hadoop?
>
> regards,
> Rams

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