Hello, Is it possible to run a M/R on cluster A over a table that resides on cluster B with output to a table on cluster A? If so, how?
I am interested in doing this for the purpose of copying part of a table from B to A. Cluster B is a production environment, cluster A is a slow test platform. I do not want the M/R to run on B since it would block precious slots on this cluster. Otherwise I could just run CopyTable on cluster B and specify cluster A as output quorum. Could this work by pointing the client configuration at the mapred-site.xml of cluster A and the hdfs-site.xml and hbase-site.xml of cluster B? In this scenario - in order to output to cluster A I guess I'd have to set TableOutputFormat.QUORUM_ADDRESS to cluster A. I use a client configuration generated by CDH4 and there are some other files floating around - such as core-site.xml, not sure what to do with that. Thank you, /David
