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Partition file by content based through HDFS

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When a user is uploading a file from the local disk to its HDFS, can I make it partition the file into blocks based on its content?

Meaning, if I have a file with one integer column, can i say, I want the hdfs block to have even numbers?

posted May 13, 2014 by Sanketi Garg

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