Spark: how to use SparkContext.textFile for local file system

Question

I\'m just getting started using Apache Spark (in Scala, but the language is irrelevant). I\'m using standalone mode and I\'ll want to process a text file f

Answer 1

Each node should contain a whole file. In this case local file system will be logically indistinguishable from the HDFS, in respect to this file.