[HADOOP-3646] Providing bzip2 as codec - ASF JIRA

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Type: Improvement
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Affects Version/s: 0.19.0
Fix Version/s: 0.19.0
Component/s: conf, io
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Release Note:
Introduced support for bzip2 compressed files.

Description

Hadoop recognizes gzip compressed input and automatically decompresses the data before providing it to the mapper. But Hadoop can not split a gzip stream due to the very nature of the gzip compression. Consequently one gzip stream (e.g a whole file) can go to only one mapper. On the contrary Bzip2 compressed stream can be split across its block delimiters.

We are interested in extending Hadoop to support splittable bzip2 with a codec. (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1823 uses input reader to split the bzip2 files, which must be provided by the user and can handle FileInputFormat. If a user wants to use some other input format or wants to do custom record handling, he must write a new input reader!)

We have a patch now that provides a basic bzip2 codec equivalent to the current gzip codec. We are in the process of extending that to support splitting.