Mark,
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Mark <static.void....@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the preferred way of managing multiple configurations.. ie > development, production etc. > > Is there someway I can tell hadoop to use a separate conf directory other > than ${hadoop_home}/conf? I think I've read somewhere that one should just > create multiple conf directories and then symlink the one you want to /conf > but I was hoping there was more elegant way. You can certainly have the configuration files in any directory, and use options like --config when launching to specify the alternate path.