Mayank, I dont have a final tag for that property set. I looked at the mapred-default.xml in the src/mapred folder and that doesn't have a final tag too. Should I set it explicitly to false?
Sid On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Mayank Bansal <may...@apache.org> wrote: > Check your mapred site xml if these parameters have <final>true</final> > > making final to false should solve your problem. > > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Sid Kumar <sqlsid...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am trying to override mapred-site.xml (more specifically >> mapred.compress.map.output >> and mapred.output.compression. >> codec) from the command line when I >> execute the jar. >> I have been using hadoop jar <jarname> <class> - >> Dmapred.compress.map.output=true and >> -Dmapred.output.compression.codec=org.apache.hadoop.io.SnappyCodec >> >> The above doesnt work as the job.xml for the jar still uses the default >> properties and not the one i specify here. Is there a different approach to >> override these properties. I am submitting jobs from a client machine that >> has the same version of configuration files as my cluster. >> >> Thanks >> >> Sid >> > >
