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Allen Wittenauer commented on HADOOP-4603:
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This is essentially fixed by using the native libraries in newer releases of
Hadoop. The problem is that the native code is completely non-portable and the
committer community has shown no real desire to make that code portable. I
don't believe we should encourage folks to run without the native code because
the performance is likely to be seriously horrendous. (My anecdotal experience
says the NN in 0.20.20x is 10-15% slower compared to 0.20.2).
At this point, I'd close this as won't fix, just like I did all of my
portability JIRAs (including some with patches). I think pretending that we
care about portability is sort of silly at this point when it has been
demonstrated over and over that we don't.
> Installation on Solaris needs additional PATH setting
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> Key: HADOOP-4603
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4603
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: fs
> Affects Versions: 0.18.2
> Environment: Solaris 10 x86
> Reporter: Jon Brisbin
> Attachments: HADOOP-4603, id_instead_of_whoami.diff
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> A default installation as outlined in the docs won't start on Solaris 10 x86.
> The "whoami" utility is in path "/usr/ucb" on Solaris 10, which isn't in the
> standard PATH environment variable unless the user has added that
> specifically. The documentation should reflect this.
> Solaris 10 also seemed to throw NPEs if you didn't explicitly set the IP
> address to bind the servers to. Simply overriding the IP address fixes the
> problem.
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