On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:03 AM, bikash sharma <sharmabiks...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi, > Does anyone knows if Linux containers (which are like kernel supported > virtualization technique for providing resource isolation across > process/appication) have ever been used with Hadoop to provide resource > isolation for map/reduce tasks? > If yes, what could be the up/down sides of such approach and how feasible > it > is in the context of Hadoop? > Any pointers if any in terms of papers, etc would be useful. > > Thanks, > Bikash > Previously hadoop launched map reduce tasks as a single user, now with security tasks can launch as different users in the same OS/VM. I would say the closest you can to that isolation is the work done with mesos . http://www.mesosproject.org/
