For some recent discussion, see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6910
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:24 AM, Steve Loughran <ste...@apache.org> wrote: > On 24/08/10 10:43, Thomas Koch wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> just out of curiosity: Is there any particular reason, why Hadoop projects >> or >> ZooKeeper do not use apache commons configuration[1]? >> I'm just evaluating it for an internal project. Would you recommend it or >> not? >> I imagine, that it could help to make projects configurable either via XML >> or >> INI files. Some people may prefer one or the other. >> >> [1] http://commons.apache.org/configuration/ >> > > Someone's discussed it, I'm against because (a) there's a lot of historical > configuration stuff in there, (b) ini files are less flexible than XML, (c) > neither of them are very dynamic. when the NN goes down and you want the DNs > to reconnect to a different host, how do you do that when all data is read > at start time? > > >
