>> The Hadoop FAQ claims that one can run Hadoop in just the Windows command
prompt.
Which FAQ do you read?
This one
http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/FAQ#2
says
"Windows requires the installation of Cygwin"
--Konstantin
Aaron Kimball wrote:
Hadoop requires a reasonable cygwin environment. bash, du, whoami, and
the various coreutils and fileutils are all required.
- Aaron
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Zachary Gorden<[email protected]> wrote:
While trying to use hadoop as a HDFS datanode on Windows, I ran into it
trying to use DU and excepting because it couldn't find it. The Hadoop FAQ
claims that one can run Hadoop in just the Windows command prompt. Does
HDFS have different constraints/need other stuff in order to actually make
use of Cygwin?
