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Commit 5d30eae5 authored by Sean Owen's avatar Sean Owen Committed by Andrew Or
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[SPARK-8437] [DOCS] Using directory path without wildcard for filename slow...

[SPARK-8437] [DOCS] Using directory path without wildcard for filename slow for large number of files with wholeTextFiles and binaryFiles

Note that 'dir/*' can be more efficient in some Hadoop FS implementations that 'dir/'

Author: Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>

Closes #7036 from srowen/SPARK-8437 and squashes the following commits:

0e813ae [Sean Owen] Note that 'dir/*' can be more efficient in some Hadoop FS implementations that 'dir/'
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...@@ -831,6 +831,8 @@ class SparkContext(config: SparkConf) extends Logging with ExecutorAllocationCli ...@@ -831,6 +831,8 @@ class SparkContext(config: SparkConf) extends Logging with ExecutorAllocationCli
* }}} * }}}
* *
* @note Small files are preferred, large file is also allowable, but may cause bad performance. * @note Small files are preferred, large file is also allowable, but may cause bad performance.
* @note On some filesystems, `.../path/*` can be a more efficient way to read all files in a directory
* rather than `.../path/` or `.../path`
* *
* @param minPartitions A suggestion value of the minimal splitting number for input data. * @param minPartitions A suggestion value of the minimal splitting number for input data.
*/ */
...@@ -878,9 +880,11 @@ class SparkContext(config: SparkConf) extends Logging with ExecutorAllocationCli ...@@ -878,9 +880,11 @@ class SparkContext(config: SparkConf) extends Logging with ExecutorAllocationCli
* (a-hdfs-path/part-nnnnn, its content) * (a-hdfs-path/part-nnnnn, its content)
* }}} * }}}
* *
* @param minPartitions A suggestion value of the minimal splitting number for input data.
*
* @note Small files are preferred; very large files may cause bad performance. * @note Small files are preferred; very large files may cause bad performance.
* @note On some filesystems, `.../path/*` can be a more efficient way to read all files in a directory
* rather than `.../path/` or `.../path`
*
* @param minPartitions A suggestion value of the minimal splitting number for input data.
*/ */
@Experimental @Experimental
def binaryFiles( def binaryFiles(
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