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Arun C Murthy commented on MAPREDUCE-1901:
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bq. I'm proposing a change in the way files are stored in HDFS. Instead of
storing files in /jobid/files or /jobid/archives, we store them directly in
{mapred.system.dir}/files and {mapred.system.dir}/archives. This removes the
association between a file and the job ID, so that files can be persistent
across jobs.
I'm confused here. The distributed-cache does not write any files to HDFS, it
merely is configured with a set of files to be copied from HDFS to the compute
node. Why are we making these changes?
> Jobs should not submit the same jar files over and over again
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> Key: MAPREDUCE-1901
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1901
> Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Joydeep Sen Sarma
> Attachments: 1901.PATCH
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> Currently each Hadoop job uploads the required resources
> (jars/files/archives) to a new location in HDFS. Map-reduce nodes involved in
> executing this job would then download these resources into local disk.
> In an environment where most of the users are using a standard set of jars
> and files (because they are using a framework like Hive/Pig) - the same jars
> keep getting uploaded and downloaded repeatedly. The overhead of this
> protocol (primarily in terms of end-user latency) is significant when:
> - the jobs are small (and conversantly - large in number)
> - Namenode is under load (meaning hdfs latencies are high and made worse, in
> part, by this protocol)
> Hadoop should provide a way for jobs in a cooperative environment to not
> submit the same files over and again. Identifying and caching execution
> resources by a content signature (md5/sha) would be a good alternative to
> have available.
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