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Amar Kamat commented on HADOOP-4209: ------------------------------------ +1. Currently there is no way to know how many times the job got restarted. One way I can think of is by using the history. Every time the history is (re)written, bump up the restart count. Thoughts? > The TaskAttemptID should not have the JobTracker start time > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-4209 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4209 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Owen O'Malley > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 0.19.0 > > > The TaskAttemptID now includes the redundant copy of the JobTracker's start > time as milliseconds. We should instead change the JobID to have the longer > unique string. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.