Re: regarding a query on the support of hadoop on windows.

2008-04-22 Thread Akshar
Please see the 'Windows Users' section on http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/QuickStart. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Anish Damodaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Sir, I'm currently evaluating hadoop for windows. I would like to know the following 1. It is possible for us to use hadoop

RE: regarding a query on the support of hadoop on windows.

2008-04-22 Thread dhruba Borthakur
As far as I know, you need cygwin to install and run hadoop. The fact that you are using cygwin to run hadoop has almost negligible impact on the performance and efficiency of the hadoop cluster. Cyhgin is mostly needed for the install and configuration scripts. There are a few small portions of