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Sharad Agarwal commented on MAPREDUCE-3473: ------------------------------------------- a single machine failure doesn't result in job to fail; thats the whole point of hadoop. smile. we are missing the difference with *Task* and *TaskAttempt*. A task gets 4 chances (task attempts) by default to run before the job is declared failed. I think this issue can be resolved as Invalid. > A single task tracker failure shouldn't result in Job failure > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-3473 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-3473 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: tasktracker > Affects Versions: 0.20.205.0, 0.23.0 > Reporter: Eli Collins > > Currently some task failures may result in job failures. Eg a local TT disk > failure seen in TaskLauncher#run, TaskRunner#run, MapTask#run is visible to > and can hang the JobClient, causing the job to fail. Job execution should > always be able to survive a task failure if there are sufficient resources. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira