[HADOOP-314] remove the append phase in sorting the reduce inputs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.3.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.4.0
• Assignee: Owen O'Malley
• Reporter: Owen O'Malley
• Created: 22/Jun/06 22:49
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:51
• Resolved: 23/Jun/06 02:14

Description

This patch creates a new interface to SequenceFile.sort that allows both a list of files to be passed as input and specifying whether the inputs should be deleted. The ReduceTask is changed to pass the list of map inputs and to delete them as they are sorted.