svn commit: r1299045 - in /hadoop/common/trunk/hadoop-mapreduce-project: CHANGES.txt src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/streaming.xml

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Author: harsh
Date: Fri Mar  9 21:07:33 2012
New Revision: 1299045

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1299045&view=rev
Log:
MAPREDUCE-3991. Streaming FAQ has some wrong instructions about input files splitting. (harsh)

Modified:
    hadoop/common/trunk/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
    hadoop/common/trunk/hadoop-mapreduce-project/src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/streaming.xml

Modified: hadoop/common/trunk/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/common/trunk/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt?rev=1299045&r1=1299044&r2=1299045&view=diff
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--- hadoop/common/trunk/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt (original)
+++ hadoop/common/trunk/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt Fri Mar  9 21:07:33 2012
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-3885. Avoid an unnecessary copy for all requests/responses in 
     MRs ProtoOverHadoopRpcEngine. (Devaraj Das via sseth)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3991. Streaming FAQ has some wrong instructions about input files splitting. (harsh)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES

Modified: hadoop/common/trunk/hadoop-mapreduce-project/src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/streaming.xml
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/common/trunk/hadoop-mapreduce-project/src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/streaming.xml?rev=1299045&r1=1299044&r2=1299045&view=diff
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--- hadoop/common/trunk/hadoop-mapreduce-project/src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/streaming.xml (original)
+++ hadoop/common/trunk/hadoop-mapreduce-project/src/docs/src/documentation/content/xdocs/streaming.xml Fri Mar  9 21:07:33 2012
@@ -750,7 +750,7 @@ You can use Hadoop Streaming to do this.
 As an example, consider the problem of zipping (compressing) a set of files across the hadoop cluster. You can achieve this using either of these methods:
 </p><ol>
 <li> Hadoop Streaming and custom mapper script:<ul>
-  <li> Generate a file containing the full HDFS path of the input files. Each map task would get one file name as input.</li>
+  <li> Generate files listing the full HDFS paths of the files to be processed. Each list file is the input for an individual map task which processes the files listed.</li>
   <li> Create a mapper script which, given a filename, will get the file to local disk, gzip the file and put it back in the desired output directory</li>
 </ul></li>
 <li>The existing Hadoop Framework:<ul>