Hi, I am seeking a way to leverage hadoop's distributed cache in order to ship jars that are required to bootstrap a task's jvm, i.e., before a map/reduce task is launched. As a concrete example, let's say that I need to launch with '-javaagent:/path/profiler.jar'. In theory, the task tracker is responsible for downloading cached files onto its local filesystem. However, the absolute path to a given cached file is not known a priori; however, we need the path in order to configure '-javaagent'.
Is this currently possible with the distributed cache? If not, is the use case appealing enough to open a jira ticket? Thanks, stan
