Actually oozie sets it to true for all the actions in launches. So by default you should see _SUCCESS file, unless you specifically override it in the action. What version of hadoop and oozie are you using?
Regards, Rohini On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Eduardo Afonso Ferreira <eafon...@yahoo.com>wrote: > I'm not sure if Pig disables it or not, but I remember I had issues when > that file was to be created by the MR jobs due to the fact of Oozie or Pig > removing temporary directories or something like that. I remember seeing an > exception about failure to create the SUCCESS file, so I started using the > following property in my workflow pig action to disable that: > > <pig> > ... > <configuration> > > <property> > > <name>mapreduce.fileoutputcommitter.marksuccessfuljobs</name> > <value>false</value> > </property> > ... > </configuration> > ... > </pig> > > > > ________________________________ > From: Rahul Bhattacharjee <rahul.rec....@gmail.com> > To: "user@hadoop.apache.org" <user@hadoop.apache.org>; > u...@oozie.apache.org > Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 3:48 AM > Subject: Re: no _SUCCESS file in MR output directory. > > > I wanted to confirm whether oozie disables the _SUCCESS file creation when > it triggers a MR job. > > I am triggering a MR job (actually a bunch of 'em) from oozie and the > workflow completes successfully , however I do not see any kind of _SUCCESS > file in the output directory. > When I set the file output committer's configuration > (mapreduce.fileoutputcommitter. > marksuccessfuljobs > ) to true.It generates the success file. Wanted to confirm if oozie does > the disabling of success file creation. > > Thanks, > Rahul > > > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Rahul Bhattacharjee < > rahul.rec....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Oozie is being used for triggering the MR job. Looks like oozie disables > > the success file creation using the configuration that you have mentioned > > for FileOutputCommitter. > > > > I have enabled it by setting this property in conf. > > > > Rahul > > > > > > On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Rahul Bhattacharjee < > > rahul.rec....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Thanks Harsh for the pointers. I will find out more on this. > >> > >> > >> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 11:26 PM, Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote: > >> > >>> I can think of a few, most obvious ones: > >>> > >>> 1. Job didn't succeed and/or the file was deleted (*shields self*) > >>> 2. Job overrode the default FileOutputCommitter with something that > >>> doesn't do success marking. > >>> 3. Job specifically asked to not create such files, via config > >>> mapreduce.fileoutputcommitter.marksuccessfuljobs or so, set to false. > >>> > >>> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Rahul Bhattacharjee > >>> <rahul.rec....@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > Hi, > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > A few days back , I was going through a MR job's output , but there > >>> wasn't > >>> > any _SUCCESS file in the output directory. > >>> > I was wondering what all reasons for this (no _SUCCESS file)? > >>> > > >>> > Thanks, > >>> > Rahul > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Harsh J > >>> > >> > >> > > >