Clarify compression property.

Clarifies that this governs compression of internal data, not input
data or output data.
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Patrick Wendell 2013-10-18 23:08:44 -07:00
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commit 6b62836285

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@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ Apart from these, the following properties are also available, and may be useful
<td>spark.io.compression.codec</td>
<td>org.apache.spark.io.<br />LZFCompressionCodec</td>
<td>
The compression codec class to use for various compressions. By default, Spark provides two
The codec used to compress internal data such as RDD partitions and shuffle outputs. By default, Spark provides two
codecs: <code>org.apache.spark.io.LZFCompressionCodec</code> and <code>org.apache.spark.io.SnappyCompressionCodec</code>.
</td>
</tr>