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Alejandro Abdelnur commented on HADOOP-1660: -------------------------------------------- Arun's proposal would do the trick in a clean way. For native libraries loaded via System.loadLibrary() it would just work (they are looked in java.library.path directories) For native libraries loaded via System.load(), it would just work as doing 'new File(LIB_NAME).getAbsolutePath()' would return the CWD + "/" + LIB_NAME. (with the load() method the library has to be indicated with an absolute path). By looking at 622, it would fix that was well. A > add support for native library toDistributedCache > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-1660 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1660 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: mapred > Environment: unix (different handling would be required for windows) > Reporter: Alejandro Abdelnur > > Currently if a M/R job depends on JNI based component the dynamic library > must be available in all the task nodes. This is not possible specially when > you have not control on the cluster machines, just using it as a service. > It should be possible to specify using the DistributedCache what are the > native libraries a job needs. > For example via a new method 'public void addLibrary(Path libraryPath, > JobConf conf)'. > The added libraries would make it to the local FS of the task nodes (same way > as cached resources) but instead been part of the classpath they would be > copied to a lib directory and that lib directory would be added t the > LD_LIBRARY_PATH of the task JVM. > An alternative would be to set the '-Djava.library.path=' task JVM parameter > to the lib directory above. However, this would break for libraries that > depend on other libraries as the dependent one would not be in the > LD_LIBRARY_PATH and the OS would fail to find it as it is not the JVM the one > doing the load of the dependent one. > For uncached usage of native libraries, a special directory in the JAR could > be used for native libraries. But I'd argue that the DistributedCache > enhancement would be enough, and if somebody wants to use a native library > s/he should use the DistributedCached. Or a JobConf addLibrary method that > uses the DistributedCached under the hood at submission time. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.