On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Bjoern Schiessle <[email protected]>wrote:
> > 1. I have set up a second dfs.name.dir which is stored at another > computer (mounted by sshfs) > I would strongly discourage the use of sshfs for the name dir. For one, it's slow, and for two, I've sen it have some really weird semantics where it's doing write-back caching. Just take a look at its manpage and you should get scared about using it for a critical mount point like this. A soft interruptable NFS mount is a much safer bet. -Todd -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
