Hi Mark, HADOOP-6108 will add Cloudera's EC2 scripts to the Apache distribution, with the difference that they will run Apache Hadoop. The same scripts will also support Cloudera's Distribution for Hadoop, simply by using a different boot script on the instances. So I would suggest you use these scripts since they are more flexible than the existing bash-based ones in Apache (e.g. they also support EBS), and are likely to have more features added, and support more cloud providers over time.
Hope this helps. Tom On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Mark Kerzner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, guys, > > sorry for kind of making you do my work, but I have a conundrum. I have been > developing on Ubuntu, and preferred to run the same Ubuntu Linux on EC2, and > indeed, that is what Amazon Elastic MR was giving me. > > But now I am running my own cluster on EC2, and Apache Hadoop images are all > on Fedora. I have already figured out the scripts and it all works - except > that I have not tested on Fedora, and I do use Linux packages. > > Alternatively, I could run on Cloudera's Hadoop, and they have Ubuntu. But, > I would probably to switch to their distribution in my code, and learn their > startup scripts. > > Which way is better? > > Thank you, > Mark >
