On Sep 9, 2007, at 11:18 PM, Jeff Hammerbacher wrote:

What's the DistributedCache for, in words?

It is for distributing large read-only files that need to be available to each task in the job. I've added an entry for it at the bottom of

http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-hadoop/FAQ

The answer needs more meat about how to set it up, but at least I started the entry.

-- Owen

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