On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:14 AM, John Clarke <clarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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? > > Everything should work fine if you've tested on Apache 0.18.3 - we guarantee API compatibility between our distribution and Apache's release. Sometimes we may add APIs, but nothing should be removed or altered. In our current "testing" level release (CDH2) we're now also running jdiff between the stock Apache release and our own so as to verify the above guarantee. -Todd > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > >
