slaves file to have a header specifying the format of conf/slaves file -----------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-6376 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6376 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Improvement Components: conf Affects Versions: 0.20.1 Reporter: Kay Kay Priority: Minor Fix For: 0.20.2 Attachments: HADOOP-6376.patch When we open the file conf/slaves - it is not immediately obvious what the format of the file is ( a comma-separated list or one per each line). The docs confirm it is 1 per line. Specifying the information by means of a comment in the template so that it is easy to modify the same, and self-explanatory. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.