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Hadoop:Whats the best way to check the compression codec that an HDFS file was written with?

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We use both Gzip and Snappy compression so I want a way to determine how a specific file is compressed. The closest I found is the GETCODEC but that relies on the file name suffix ... which dont exist since Reducers typically dont add a suffix to the filenames they create.

posted Dec 4, 2013 by Luv Kumar

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If you're looking for file header/contents based inspection, you could download the file and run the Linux utility 'file' on the file, and it should tell you the format.

I don't know about Snappy, but Gzip files can be identified simply by their header bytes for the magic sequence.

If its sequence files you are looking to analyse, a simple way is to read its first few hundred bytes, which should have the codec string in it. Programmatically you can use
https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.0.4/api/org/apache/hadoop/io/SequenceFile.Reader.html#getCompressionCodec() for sequence files.

answer Dec 5, 2013 by Majula Joshi
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