Cloudera submits their patches back to the projects, and people are free to pick them up. It is becoming a normal thing to run a patched distribution, particularly since Yahoo made their version of 0.20 available.
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Edward Capriolo <[email protected]>wrote: > Generally if I have an issue I will bring it up on the forums and just > reference the hadoop major.18.3 ce your likely to get the same level > of help. > > On 8/19/09, Erik Forsberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I'm currently evaluating different Hadoop versions for a new project. > > I'm tempted by the Cloudera distribution, since it's neatly packaged > > into .deb files, and is the stable distribution but with some patches > > applied, for example the bzip2 support. > > > > I understand that I can get a support agreement from Cloudera to match > > this distribution, but if that's not an option, will running the > > Cloudera distribution put me in a position where I won't get any help > > from the community because I'm not running an official Apache Hadoop > > release? > > > > Regards, > > \EF > > -- > > Erik Forsberg <[email protected]> > > Developer, Opera Mini - http://www.opera.com/mini/ > > > -- Pro Hadoop, a book to guide you from beginner to hadoop mastery, http://www.amazon.com/dp/1430219424?tag=jewlerymall www.prohadoopbook.com a community for Hadoop Professionals
