Re: FileSystem.workingDir vs mapred.local.dir

2013-01-15 Thread Hemanth Yamijala
Hi, AFAIK, the mapred.local.dir property refers to a set of directories under which different types of data related to mapreduce jobs are stored - for e.g. intermediate data, localized files for a job etc. The working directory for a mapreduce job is configured under a sub directory within one of

Re: FileSystem.workingDir vs mapred.local.dir

2013-01-15 Thread Jay Vyas
what do you mean by workingdir for a filesystem ? I never thought that a fileSystem should need or have a special workingDir ? On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Hemanth Yamijala yhema...@thoughtworks.com wrote: Hi, AFAIK, the mapred.local.dir property refers to a set of directories under

Re: FileSystem.workingDir vs mapred.local.dir

2013-01-15 Thread Harsh J
Jay, For your FS question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_directory On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Jay Vyas jayunit...@gmail.com wrote: what do you mean by workingdir for a filesystem ? I never thought that a fileSystem should need or have a special workingDir ? On Tue, Jan 15,

Re: FileSystem.workingDir vs mapred.local.dir

2013-01-15 Thread Jay Vyas
ah okay. so - in default hadoop dfs, the workingDir is (i beleive) /user/hadoop/ , because as i recall when putting a file into hdfs, that seems to be where the files naturally end up if there is no path specified.