It is a common term, just one that I have seen distastefully used with an unpleasant subtext. Just reading the manual... Hadoop is neat-o! --mark--
On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Nan Zhu wrote: > For MapReduce, I always call them "JobTracker" and > "TaskTracker", for HDFS, "Namenode" and "DataNode" > > because of the name of classes in source code???:-) > > On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Mark Hedges <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Why don't you call them "directors" and "workers" > > instead of "masters" and "slaves" ?
