Dunno. Implication is that there is a MR cluster out there just sitting idle waiting on the occasional job of whimsy (if the data is 'big'). And, we'd have to make our load/dump at least as smart as the ? equivalent (fill in one from the list pig, hive, cascading, etc.)? Then why not just fire up the pig/hive/etc shells....
File an issue though lads. Above is just an opinion. St.Ack On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Jack Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, shell could launch MR jobs; I bet a lot of people will find this > feature very useful. > > -Jack > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Joey Echeverria <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think Jack was suggesting that the shell would launch the MR jobs. >> >> -Joey >> On Jun 7, 2011 1:34 PM, "Stack" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Jack Levin <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> That would be a real nice feature though, imagine going to the shell, >>>> and requesting a dump of your table. >>>> >>> >>> But it would only work for mickey mouse tables, no? If your >>> input/output is of any substantial size, wouldn't you want to MR it? >>> St.Ack >> >
