On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Stas Oskin <stas.os...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Todd. > > Hadoop doesn't daemonize itself. The shell scripts use nohup and a lot >> of bash code to achieve a similar idea. >> >> > Was there any design decision behind this approach? >
It long predates my involvement in the project. In fact, it predates Hadoop itself - it got inherited from Nutch long ago. I vaguely recall a JIRA about using jsvc for Hadoop - if you search around I bet you can turn it up. -Todd
