I found the >right< archives and the issue was brought up as recently as 1/4 with no responses. I'll see what I can do for a patch.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Drew Farris <drew.far...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:56 PM, Grant Ingersoll <gsing...@apache.org> wrote: >> Should be easy enough to submit a patch to Hadoop, no? I can't imagine they >> are against it, probably just that no one has done it. > > I'll post to the hadoop-dev list and see what I can discover. >