On May 14, 2010, at 9:57 AM, Alex Li wrote: > [j...@alextest ~]$ which du > /usr/xpg4/bin/du
POSIX du > [j...@alextest ~]$ which gdu > /opt/local/bin/gdu GNU du > [j...@alextest ~]$ > > It turns out what I got isn't the GNU du. This is actually very concerning. Hadoop should work with POSIX du. If it doesn't, it is a bug. > alias didn't work. hadoop must be looking for 'whch du' and use whichever if > found first in the PATH. Essentially, yes. It is surprising that POSIX du fails but SysV du (which is what we use here) and GNU du work. I'll have to play with this and see what is going on.
