I'm also maintaining an experimental Hadoop cluster, and I need to modify the Hadoop source code and test it,
so just use NFS to deploy the latest version of code, no problem found yet Best, -- Nan Zhu School of Computer Science, McGill University On Monday, 18 February, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Chris Embree wrote: > I'm doing that currently. No problems to report so far. > > The only pitfall I've found is around NFS stability. If your NAS is 100% > solid no problems. I've seen mtab get messed up and refuse to remount if NFS > has any hiccups. > > If you want to really crazy, consider NFS for your datanode root fs. See the > oneSIS project for details. http://onesis.sourceforge.net > > Enjoy. > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Mehmet Belgin <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > Will it be any problem if I put the hadoop executables and configuration on > > a NFS volume, which is shared by all masters and slaves? This way the > > configuration changes will be available for all nodes, without need for > > synching any files. While this looks almost like a no-brainer, I am > > wondering if there are any pitfalls I need to be aware of. > > > > On a related question, is there a best practices (do's and don'ts ) > > document that you can suggest other than the regular documentation by > > Apache? > > > > Thanks! > > -Mehmet
