Please move discussions of CDH issues to Cloudera's lists. Thanks.
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Bjoern Schiessle <bjo...@schiessle.org>wrote: > >> >> 1. I have set up a second dfs.name.dir which is stored at another >> computer (mounted by sshfs) >> > > I would strongly discourage the use of sshfs for the name dir. For one, it's > slow, and for two, I've sen it have some really weird semantics where it's > doing write-back caching. > > Just take a look at its manpage and you should get scared about using it for > a critical mount point like this. > > A soft interruptable NFS mount is a much safer bet. > > -Todd > -- > Todd Lipcon > Software Engineer, Cloudera >
