Steve, We do welcome improvement patches for better Windows support. Would you mind filing a JIRA and a patch for this under HADOOP?
On 22-Nov-2011, at 5:17 AM, Steve Lewis wrote: > I am running a job on a cluster launching from a windows box and > "fs.default.name" to point the job to the cluster. > Everything works until the last step where I say > > FileSystem fileSystem = FileSystem.get(config); // this is hdfs > fileSystem.copyToLocalFile(src, dst); // local system > > at this point RawLocalFileSystem tries to exec chmod which is not on windows. > > This looks like a bug - it seems that there should be a fallback system or > better yet a call to the > Java standard File.canWrite command before attempting to alter permissions > > -- > Steven M. Lewis PhD > 4221 105th Ave NE > Kirkland, WA 98033 > 206-384-1340 (cell) > Skype lordjoe_com > >
