Jobid creation is not required if the job failed because of unavailability of input path.Can input and output paths validation can be done before job ID creation step? -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: MAPREDUCE-4130 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-4130 Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce Issue Type: Bug Components: mrv2 Reporter: Ramgopal N Priority: Minor If the input splits cannot be computed because the input paths doesnt exist Job is not submitted and error is thrown.But before that jobid is created which can be avoided. The sequence is 1)Output path validation 2)Jobid creation 3)Input splits computation But if the sequence of steps is 1,3,2 ...unnecessary jobid creation can be avoided -- 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