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Hemanth Yamijala commented on HADOOP-6039: ------------------------------------------ Before we do this, I think we should resolve HADOOP-4421. Atleast to the extent of agreeing to a design. Adding one more task, while we are trying to fix problems with the existing ones might make things a tad more difficult to manage. > Computing Input Splits on the MR Cluster > ---------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-6039 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6039 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: mapred > Reporter: Philip Zeyliger > > Instead of computing the input splits as part of job submission, Hadoop could > have a separate "job task type" that computes the input splits, therefore > allowing that computation to happen on the cluster. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.