After a first mail I understood that you are providing additional job.xml ( which can be done). What version of Hadoop do you use ? In 0.20 there was some change in configuration files - as far as I understood from the messages, hadoop-site.xml was splitted into few other... where the overriding settings can reside.
Piotr 2009/5/19 Foss User <foss...@gmail.com> > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:23 PM, He Chen <air...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think, they are not overridden every times. If you do not give any > > configuration in your source code, the hadoop-site.xml will helps you > > configure the framework. At the same time, you will not configure all the > > parameters of hadoop framework in your program, then hadoop-site.xml > helps. > > Then we are back to the question I asked in my original mail. I have > not specified any configurationin code. So, the configuration in > hadoop-site.xml should be used. Then why is it not being used? >