[HDFS-2293] Add the ability to set dfs.block.size for a given file from the command line

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Cannot Reproduce
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.0
• Component/s: hdfs-client
• Labels: newbie
• Assignee: Uma Maheswara Rao G
• Reporter: Aaron Myers
• Created: 27/Aug/11 23:22
• Updated: 29/Aug/11 06:08
• Resolved: 28/Aug/11 17:45

Description

See the thread here, in which Allen correctly points out that since dfs.block.size is a client-side config, one could just set a different value in a custom HADOOP_CONF_DIR. We might as well make that easy.