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Allen Wittenauer commented on HADOOP-5670: ------------------------------------------ Given ZK's status as a subproject, where does ZK read its configuration data from? Do we have a chicken and egg problem? > Hadoop configurations should be read from a distributed system > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-5670 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5670 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: conf > Reporter: Allen Wittenauer > > Rather than distributing the hadoop configuration files to every data node, > compute node, etc, Hadoop should be able to read configuration information > (dynamically!) from LDAP, ZooKeeper, whatever. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.