Nick Dimiduk created HBASE-9877:
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Summary: HFileOutputFormat creates partitions file with random
name under /tmp
Key: HBASE-9877
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-9877
Project: HBase
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: mapreduce
Affects Versions: 0.96.0, 0.94.12, 0.98.0
Reporter: Nick Dimiduk
Priority: Minor
HFileOutputFormat creates a partitions file for managing reducer partition
boundaries. This file is created under /tmp and is just a UUID. As [pointed
out|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4285?focusedCommentId=13620294&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13620294]
by [~lurbina], there's no guarantee this path exists or is user-writable. As
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[mentions|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4285?focusedCommentId=13602934&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13602934],
this file name is useless for users trying to debug a failing job. We should
give it a meaningful name, based on job name and/or timestamp.
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