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Pi Song commented on PIG-102:
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Question!!!
As far as I know HDFS has copy-on-write implementation that helps protect
against changes during execution. How about in case of using local FS, or this
shared NFS? Is there any mechanism to help? Sounds like we're relying on the
implementation of file system?
> Dont copy to DFS if source filesystem marked as shared
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>
> Key: PIG-102
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-102
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: impl
> Environment: Installations with shared folders on all nodes (eg NFS)
> Reporter: Craig Macdonald
> Attachments: shared.patch
>
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> I've been playing with Pig using three setups:
> (a) local
> (b) hadoop mapred with hdfs
> (c) hadoop mapred with file:///path/to/shared/fs as the default file system
> In our local setup, various NFS filesystems are shared between all machines
> (including mapred nodes) eg /users, /local
> I would like Pig to note when input files are in a file:// directory that has
> been marked as shared, and hence not copy it to DFS.
> Similarly, the Torque PBS resource manager has a usecp directive, which notes
> when a filesystem location is shared between all nodes, (and hence scp is not
> needed, cp alone can be used). See
> http://www.clusterresources.com/wiki/doku.php?id=torque:6.2_nfs_and_other_networked_filesystems
> It would be good to have a configurable setting in Pig that says when a
> filesystem is shared, and hence no copying between file:// and hdfs:// is
> needed.
> An example in our setup might be:
> sharedFS file:///local/
> sharedFS file:///users/
> if commands should be used.
> This command should be used with care. Obviously if you have 1000 nodes all
> accessing a shared file in NFS, then it would have been better to "hadoopify"
> the file.
> The likely area of code to patch is
> src/org/apache/pig/impl/io/FileLocalizer.java hadoopify(String, PigContext)
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