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Subject: Hadoop File system performance counters
From: abhishek sharma <absharma@usc.edu>
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Hi,

What do the following two File Sytem counters associated with a job
(and printed at the end of a job's execution) represent?

FILE_BYTES_READ and FILE_BYTES_WRITTEN

How are they different from the HDFS_BYTES_READ and HDFS_BYTES_WRITTEN?

Thanks,
Abhishek