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Arun C Murthy commented on HADOOP-3598:
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I kept the checks since it's consistent with current behaviour - currently
TaskTracker.localizeConfiguration does those checks.
We need getWorkOutputPath() so that client code can use it to query for the
temp. path and create side-effect files. Hence I have introduced a new
(non-public) createWorkDir() api...
> Map-Reduce framework needlessly creates temporary _${taskid} directories for
> Maps
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> Key: HADOOP-3598
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3598
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: mapred
> Affects Versions: 0.18.0
> Reporter: Arun C Murthy
> Assignee: Arun C Murthy
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.18.0
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> Attachments: HADOOP-3598_0_20080619.patch
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> The staging directory for task-outputs (i.e.
> ${mapred.out.dir}/_temporary/_${taskid}) should only be created when Maps
> produce output on HDFS, which usually isn't the case. This plays very badly
> with HDFS quotas and may lead to thousands of temp names in the FS namespace,
> there-by overhauling the quotas. IAC, it isn't good to needlessly create
> these directories.
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