AFAIK we've never claimed that spark-ec2 is supported on Windows -- for example in the code, we assume the existence of `ssh` as a binary on PATH etc. That said I've never tried to run it from Windows, so I am not sure if it can somehow be used.
Thanks Shivaram On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Nicholas Chammas < nicholas.cham...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is spark-ec2 supposed to run normally from Windows (e.g. to launch a > cluster)? > > I ask because I don’t see mention of Windows anywhere in relation to > spark-ec2, and there is an open PR > < > https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/4162/files#diff-ada66bbeb2f1327b508232ef6c3805a5R358 > > > that checks file permissions, and I’m not sure if we need to care about how > permission masks show up on Windows vs. Unix systems. > > Nick > >
