[MAPREDUCE-2786] TestDFSIO should also test compression reading/writing from command-line.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.2-alpha, 0.23.4
• Component/s: benchmarks
• Labels: newbie
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Tags: testdfsio
• Assignee: Plamen Jeliazkov
• Reporter: Plamen Jeliazkov
• Created: 08/Aug/11 17:14
• Updated: 07/Feb/13 00:08
• Resolved: 03/Sep/12 18:59

Description

I thought it might be beneficial to simply alter the code of TestDFSIO to accept any compression codec class and allow testing for compression by a command line argument instead of having to change the config file everytime. Something like "-compression" would do.

Issue Links

• is related to: MAPREDUCE-4985 TestDFSIO supports compression but usages doesn't reflect