hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory

2013-05-21 Thread Raj Hadoop
Hi,   I am configurinig Hive. I ahve a question on the property hive.metastore.warehouse.dir.   Should this point to a physical directory. I am guessing it is a logical directory under Hadoop fs.default.name. Please advise whether I need to create any directory for the variable

Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory

2013-05-21 Thread Raj Hadoop
Subject: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory Hi, I am configurinig Hive. I ahve a question on the property hive.metastore.warehouse.dir. Should this point to a physical directory. I am guessing it is a logical directory under Hadoop fs.default.name. Please

Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory

2013-05-21 Thread Sanjay Subramanian
deanwamp...@gmail.commailto:deanwamp...@gmail.com, user@hive.apache.orgmailto:user@hive.apache.org user@hive.apache.orgmailto:user@hive.apache.org Cc: User u...@hadoop.apache.orgmailto:u...@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory Ok.I

Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory

2013-05-21 Thread bharath vissapragada
*Sent:* Tuesday, May 21, 2013 1:44 PM *Subject:* Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory The name is misleading; this is the directory within HDFS where Hive stores the data, by default. (External tables can go elsewhere). It doesn't really have anything

Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory

2013-05-21 Thread Raj Hadoop
, 2013 1:53 PM Subject: Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory Notes below From: Raj Hadoop hadoop...@yahoo.com Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org user@hive.apache.org, Raj Hadoop hadoop...@yahoo.com Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:49 AM To: Dean Wampler deanwamp

Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory

2013-05-21 Thread Raj Hadoop
: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory Hi, If by local physical directory you mean a directory in the underlying OS file system, then No. You just need to create a directory in HDFS and ad it to that xml config file. Thanks, On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:19 PM

Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory

2013-05-21 Thread Dean Wampler
:* User u...@hadoop.apache.org *Sent:* Tuesday, May 21, 2013 1:53 PM *Subject:* Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory Notes below From: Raj Hadoop hadoop...@yahoo.com Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org user@hive.apache.org, Raj Hadoop hadoop...@yahoo.com

Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory

2013-05-21 Thread Raj Hadoop
Subramanian sanjay.subraman...@wizecommerce.com; user@hive.apache.org user@hive.apache.org; User u...@hadoop.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 2:06 PM Subject: Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory No, you only need a directory in HDFS, which

Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory

2013-05-21 Thread bharath vissapragada
*To:* Raj Hadoop hadoop...@yahoo.com *Cc:* Sanjay Subramanian sanjay.subraman...@wizecommerce.com; user@hive.apache.org user@hive.apache.org; User u...@hadoop.apache.org *Sent:* Tuesday, May 21, 2013 2:06 PM *Subject:* Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory

Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory

2013-05-21 Thread Sanjay Subramanian
, User u...@hadoop.apache.orgmailto:u...@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory Yes ! On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Raj Hadoop hadoop...@yahoo.commailto:hadoop...@yahoo.com wrote: So that means I need to create a HDFS ( Not an OS

Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory

2013-05-21 Thread Raj Hadoop
21, 2013 2:27 PM Subject: Re: hive.metastore.warehouse.dir - Should it point to a physical directory Hi Raj http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera-content/cloudera-docs/CDH4/latest/CDH4-Quick-Start/cdh4qs_topic_3.html Installing CDH4 on a Single Linux Node in Pseudo-distributed Mode