Stan, You can ask TT to create a symlink to your jar shipped via DistCache: http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r1.0.3/mapred_tutorial.html#DistributedCache
That should give you what you want. hth, Arun On Jul 30, 2012, at 3:23 PM, Stan Rosenberg wrote: > 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 -- Arun C. Murthy Hortonworks Inc. http://hortonworks.com/
