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Philip Zeyliger commented on MAPREDUCE-989:
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The use cases definitely make sense. Unpacking archives on setup tasks is often
going to be pointless.
I've been thinking about what a reasonable API for this would be (especially
after working on MAPREDUCE-476), from the Job
submitter's role. One thought is:
bq. addCacheFile(URI path, Set<TaskType> tasks, Set<DistributedCacheOptions>
options);
Where the default for tasks is an ImmutableSet(EnumSet<TaskType>) containing
MAP and REDUCE. DistributedCacheOptions include
{code}
ADD_TO_CLASSPATH
UNARCHIVE
CREATE_SYMLINK
{code}
The defaults are to not add to classpath, not unarchive, and not create the
symlink.
(Note that we'd be creating symlinks per-file, instead of globally, which is
the only
place to set the option currently.)
What I like about this is that it replaces 5 methods (addCacheFile,
addCacheArchive, addFileToClassPath, addArchiveToClassPath, createSymlink),
with one method, and doesn't loose much in the way of readability.
You could also use booleans or enums (boolean add_to_classpath, boolean
unarchive, boolean create_symlink), but that is often difficult to read.
On the back-end, you'd need to revisit how the files to be cached are stored.
The current scheme of using
{code}
mapred.cache.archives.timestamps
mapred.cache.localFiles
mapred.job.classpath.files
mapred.job.classpath.archives
mapred.cache.archives
mapred.cache.files
mapred.create.symlink
{code}
probably needs to remain for backwards compatibility, but it would
be great to just stick that into one configuration property:
bq. mapred.filecache = [ { "path": ..., "tasks": [ MAP, REDUCE ], ... }, ... ]
or, if it's legal
{code}
mapred.filecache.0 = { "path: ...", ... }
mapred.filecache.1 = ...
...
{code}
Thoughts?
> Allow segregation of DistributedCache for maps and reduces
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>
> Key: MAPREDUCE-989
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-989
> Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: client
> Reporter: Arun C Murthy
>
> Applications might have differing needs for files in the DistributedCache wrt
> maps and reduces. We should allow them to specify them separately.
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