On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Raghava Mutharaju <
m.vijayaragh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Todd,
>
>        Thank you for the reply. In the cluster I use here, apache Hadoop is
> installed. So I have to use that. I am trying out HBase on my laptop first.
> Even though I install CDH2, it won't be useful because on the cluster, I
> have to work with apache Hadoop. Since version 0.21 is still in
> development,
> there should be a HDFS-630 patch for the current stable release of Hadoop
> isn't it?
>

No, it was not considered for release in Hadoop 0.20.X because it breaks
wire compatibility, and though I've done a workaround to avoid issues
stemming from that, it would be unlikely to pass a backport vote.

-Todd

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Raghava,
> >
> > Yes, that's a patch targeted at 0.20, but I'm not certain whether it
> > applies
> > on the vanilla 0.20 code or not. If you'd like a version of Hadoop that
> > already has it applied and tested, I'd recommend using Cloudera's CDH2.
> >
> > -Todd
> >
> > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 7:59 PM, Raghava Mutharaju <
> > m.vijayaragh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > >     I am trying to install HBase and while going through the
> requirements
> > > (link below), it asked me to apply HDFS-630 patch. The latest 2 patches
> > are
> > > for Hadoop 0.21. I am using version 0.20. For this version, should I
> > apply
> > > Todd Lipcon's patch at
> > >
> >
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12430230/hdfs-630-0.20.txt
> > > .
> > > Would this be the right patch to apply? The directory structures have
> > > changed from 0.20 to 0.21.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://hadoop.apache.org/hbase/docs/current/api/overview-summary.html#requirements
> > >
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Raghava.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Todd Lipcon
> > Software Engineer, Cloudera
> >
>



-- 
Todd Lipcon
Software Engineer, Cloudera

Reply via email to