Where does Whirr set the standard Hadoop configurations and why would this be 
the default (meaning, I simply followed the common Whirr tutorials online 
verbatim so I got whatever the default behavior is).

On Feb 11, 2013, at 21:50 , Paul Baclace wrote:

> Check your fs.default.name setting in core-site.xml, it is probably set to 
> file:/// ; the value of this property is prepended to a path that has no URI 
> protocol when resolved by "hadoop fs -ls ..." and job inputs/outputs.
> 
> This "feature" enables local mode (single process) and pseudo or full cluster 
> modes to work using the same absolute paths without protocol:// in test 
> scripts. I think I used it once in 6 years, but someone out there might rely 
> on it.
> 
> The above means that when using a real cluster,
> 
>    hadoop fs -ls file:///
> 
> will indeed show the local root filesystem.
> 
> 
> Paul


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