Thanks for the update Suresh. Has any testing been done on the branch on Linux aside from running the unit tests?
Thanks, Eli On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Suresh Srinivas <sur...@hortonworks.com>wrote: > The support for Hadoop on Windows was proposed in > HADOOP-8079<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8079> almost > a year ago. The goal was to make Hadoop natively integrated, full-featured, > and performance and scalability tuned on Windows Server or Windows Azure. > We are happy to announce that a lot of progress has been made in this > regard. > > Initial work started in a feature branch, branch-1-win, based on branch-1. > The details related to the work done in the branch can be seen in > CHANGES.txt< > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/hadoop/common/branches/branch-1-win/CHANGES.branch-1-win.txt?view=markup > >. > This work has been ported to a branch, branch-trunk-win, based on trunk. > Merge patch for this is available on > HADOOP-8562<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8562> > . > > Highlights of the work done so far: > 1. Necessary changes in Hadoop to run natively on Windows. These changes > handle differences in platforms related to path names, process/task > management etc. > 2. Addition of winutils tools for managing file permissions and ownership, > user group mapping, hardlinks, symbolic links, chmod, disk utilization, and > process/task management. > 3. Added cmd scripts equivalent to existing shell scripts hadoop-daemon.sh, > start and stop scripts. > 4. Addition of block placement policy implemnation to support cloud > enviroment, more specifically Azure. > > We are very close to wrapping up the work in branch-trunk-win and getting > ready for a merge. Currently the merge patch is passing close to 100% of > unit tests on Linux. Soon I will call for a vote to merge this branch into > trunk. > > Next steps: > 1. Call for vote to merge branch-trunk-win to trunk, when the work > completes and precommit build is clean. > 2. Start a discussion on adding Jenkins precommit builds on windows and how > to integrate that with the existing commit process. > > Let me know if you have any questions. > > Regards, > Suresh >
