Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 72650 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2010 23:27:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 18 Oct 2010 23:27:56 -0000 Received: (qmail 97306 invoked by uid 500); 18 Oct 2010 23:27:54 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-user-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 97256 invoked by uid 500); 18 Oct 2010 23:27:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact common-user-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list common-user@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 97248 invoked by uid 99); 18 Oct 2010 23:27:53 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:27:53 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=10.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [76.96.59.243] (HELO qmta13.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net) (76.96.59.243) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:27:45 +0000 Received: from omta22.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.73]) by qmta13.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id LB4t1f0061ap0As5DPTRQY; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:27:25 +0000 Received: from [10.72.120.91] ([209.131.62.113]) by omta22.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id LPTG1f0092SbwD53iPTKcW; Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:27:23 +0000 Message-Id: <4111BDEF-4B7D-41E2-9FC9-31868D0CDE86@apache.org> From: Owen O'Malley To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: BUG: Anyone use block size more than 2GB before? Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:27:15 -0700 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Block sizes larger than 2**31 are known to not work. I haven't ever tracked down the problem, just set my block size to be smaller than that. -- Owen