Thanks for the replies, I've been developing against 0.18.3 under Windows XP and testing on Ubuntu.
That seems like a long list of changes from 0.18.3! Should I expect any specific issues if I try Cloudera's version on EC2 seeing as I have only tested against the stock 0.18.3? Cheers, John 2009/9/7 Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> > Hi, > > The EC2 scripts will boot Cloudera's distribution for Hadoop. Currently > they > boot our distribution of 0.18.3, but 0.20 support should be ready pretty > soon now. Here's a list of what patches are in our newest 0.18.3 > distribution: > > http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/testing/hadoop-0.18.3+70.CHANGES.txt > > -Todd > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 7:30 AM, tim robertson <timrobertson...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > I can recommend the cloudera EC2 images. I am not sure what version > > they are built on right now, but I think they pick stable ones and > > apply critical patches I believe. > > http://www.cloudera.com/hadoop-ec2 > > > > Cheers, > > Tim > > > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 7:08 AM, John Clarke<clarke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am planning on running my MapReduce app on Amazon's EC2. I had a look > > at > > > the public Hadoop images in the hadoop-images bucket and there is no > > image > > > for the stable 0.18.3 release. The most recent Hadoop versions I see > are > > > 0.18.1 and 0.19.0. Which of those would be better to use? Or should I > try > > > and create my own AMI from one of the existing ones with the stable > > 0.18.3? > > > > > > Who owns the AMIs in hadoop-images? If they are owned by the Hadoop > > project > > > I'm surprised there isn't one for the stable 0.18.3 or a later 0.19.x. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > John > > > > > >