Hadoop: compress file in HDFS?

Question

I recently set up LZO compression in Hadoop. What is the easiest way to compress a file in HDFS? I want to compress a file and then delete the original. Should I create a

Answer 1

I suggest you write a MapReduce job that, as you say, just uses the Identity mapper. While you are at it, you should consider writing the data out to sequence files to improve performance loading. You can also store sequence files in block-level and record-level compression. Yo should see what works best for you, as both are optimized for different types of records.