On 04/30/2012 10:28 PM, Owen O'Malley wrote: > I'd like to propose that we change the default value for > HADOOP_CONF_DIR to /etc/hadoop instead of the current > /etc/hadoop/conf. I think it will reduce the confusion factor of new > users quite a bit. Roman shared that the original motivation was to > support multiple client configurations, but that seems relatively rare > use case. (Note that multiple client configs is still supported, of > course, you just need to use --config option to point it to the right > configuration directory. I'm just proposing that we remove the extra > conf out of the path.) > > What do people think? > > -- Owen
I would rather keep it the current way. /etc/<component>/conf> provides flexibility and convenience while being obvious. I also do not understand how it is confusing. Thanks, Bruno
