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Krishna Ramachandran commented on MAPREDUCE-1778: ------------------------------------------------- Amar I agree there are 2 possibilities - have not checked as to how to address item 2 (if directory though exists can not be written to) will update > CompletedJobStatusStore initialization should fail if > {mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir} is unwritable > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-1778 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1778 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: jobtracker > Reporter: Amar Kamat > Assignee: Amar Kamat > Attachments: mapred-1778-1.patch, mapred-1778.patch > > > If {mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir} points to an unwritable > location or mkdir of {mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir} fails, then > CompletedJobStatusStore silently ignores the failure and disables > CompletedJobStatusStore. Ideally the JobTracker should bail out early > indicating a misconfiguration. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.