On Feb 10, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Doug Cutting (JIRA) wrote:
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http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3?
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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-3:
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An even safer way to fix this would be to have JobClient throw an
exception if the output directory already exists. That way folks
won't inadvertantly overwrite things.
Jira seems to be broken and not taking comments.
What about having a clobber configuration variable
(mapred.output.clobber?) that defaults to false?
-- Owen
