On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 13:56 +0100, stephen mulcahy wrote: > Hi, > > I've been running some tests with hadoop in pseudo-distributed mode. My > config includes the following in conf/hdfs-site.xml > > <property> > <name>dfs.data.dir</name> > <value>/hdfs/disk1, /hdfs/disk2, /hdfs/disk3, /hdfs/disk4</value> > </property> > > When I started running hadoop I was disappointed to see that only > /hdfs/disk1 was created. It was only later I noticed that HADOOP_HOME > now contained the following new directories > > HADOOP_HOME/ /hdfs/disk2 > HADOOP_HOME/ /hdfs/disk3 > HADOOP_HOME/ /hdfs/disk4 > > I guess any leading spaces should be stripped out of the data dir names? > Or maybe there is a reason for this behaviour. I thought I should > mention it just in case.
I thought I'd double check... $touch \ file\ with\ leading\ space $touch file\ without\ leading\ space $ ls file with leading space file without leading space ... so stripping it out could mean you couldn't enter some valid directory names (but who has folders starting with a space?) I'm sure my input wasn't very useful, but just a comment. Tim Wintle
