[MAPREDUCE-1509] Partition size of Hadoop Archives should be configurable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: harchive
• Assignee: Rodrigo Schmidt
• Reporter: Rodrigo Schmidt
• Created: 19/Feb/10 02:43
• Updated: 19/Mar/10 01:15
• Resolved: 19/Mar/10 01:15

Description

The size of partitions on Hadoop Archives is fixed to 2G:

static final long partSize = 2 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024l;

We should make it a configurable parameter so that users can define it at the command line

$ hadoop archive -partsize 4 ....

Issue Links

• duplicates: MAPREDUCE-1428 Make block size and the size of archive created files configurable.