It looks like the NFS stability and performance are two main concerns. Since my cluster is still experimental, I will continue to use NFS for now. In the future, when we have a larger production cluster, I will consider local configurations.
Thank you all for your replies! -Mehmet On Feb 18, 2013, at 1:00 PM, Mehmet Belgin 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
