[jira] [Updated] (MAPREDUCE-2094) org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat: isSplitable implements unsafe default behaviour that is different from the documented behaviour.

["Niels Basjes (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2094?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Niels Basjes updated MAPREDUCE-2094:
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    Attachment: MAPREDUCE-2094-20140727-svn-fixed-spaces.patch

I removed the trailing spaces from the lines I touched.
One line that was reported however is a line I didn't touch in my patch.

Question: What should I do about that?

> org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat: isSplitable implements unsafe default behaviour that is different from the documented behaviour.
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>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-2094
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2094
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: task
>            Reporter: Niels Basjes
>            Assignee: Niels Basjes
>         Attachments: MAPREDUCE-2094-2011-05-19.patch, MAPREDUCE-2094-20140727-svn-fixed-spaces.patch, MAPREDUCE-2094-20140727-svn.patch, MAPREDUCE-2094-20140727.patch, MAPREDUCE-2094-FileInputFormat-docs-v2.patch
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> When implementing a custom derivative of FileInputFormat we ran into the effect that a large Gzipped input file would be processed several times. 
> A near 1GiB file would be processed around 36 times in its entirety. Thus producing garbage results and taking up a lot more CPU time than needed.
> It took a while to figure out and what we found is that the default implementation of the isSplittable method in [org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat | http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/mapreduce/trunk/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/lib/input/FileInputFormat.java?view=markup ] is simply "return true;". 
> This is a very unsafe default and is in contradiction with the JavaDoc of the method which states: "Is the given filename splitable? Usually, true, but if the file is stream compressed, it will not be. " . The actual implementation effectively does "Is the given filename splitable? Always true, even if the file is stream compressed using an unsplittable compression codec. "
> For our situation (where we always have Gzipped input) we took the easy way out and simply implemented an isSplittable in our class that does "return false; "
> Now there are essentially 3 ways I can think of for fixing this (in order of what I would find preferable):
> # Implement something that looks at the used compression of the file (i.e. do migrate the implementation from TextInputFormat to FileInputFormat). This would make the method do what the JavaDoc describes.
> # "Force" developers to think about it and make this method abstract.
> # Use a "safe" default (i.e. return false)



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