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Posted to mapreduce-user@hadoop.apache.org by Pedro Costa <ps...@gmail.com> on 2011/02/08 17:39:43 UTC

What are index files in the hadoop MR

Hi,

The map tasks saves as output the map output and a index file. What's
the purpose of an index file?

Thanks,

-- 
Pedro