James,
This is _possible_, but you will need a complete set of both
OutputFormat and OutputCommitter to do the work for you as
File{OutputFormat,OutputCommitter} work with directories. The biggest
advantage of having output directories is the ability to have
temporary attempt directories and output-committing (speculative
execution and task failure handling), described at
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/FAQ#Can_I_write_create.2BAC8-write-to_hdfs_files_directly_from_map.2BAC8-reduce_tasks.3F.
-- You'd need something like this for a complete solution.
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Jianhui Zhang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The FileOutputFormat/FileOutputCommitter always treats an output path
> as a directory and write files under it, even if there is only one
> Reducer. Is there any way to configure an OutputFormat to write all
> data into a file?
>
> Thanks,
> James
--
Harsh J
