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Subject: Re: DFS block size
From: Jeff Hammerbacher <hammer@cloudera.com>
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>
> Cloudera has a pretty detailed blog on this.
>

Indeed. See http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2009/02/02/the-small-files-problem/.
The post is getting a bit long in the tooth but should contain some useful
information for you.

Regards,
Jeff

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