Master and slaves comes from the old distributed system terminologies . Since Hadoop also is a distributed system it uses that type of terminology :)
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Mark Hedges <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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" ? >
