Hi Daniel, first of all, before posting to a mailing list, take a deep breath and let your frustrations out. Then write the email. Using words like "crappy", "toxicware", "nightmare" are not going to help you getting useful responses.
While I agree that the docs can be confusing, we should try to stay constructive. You haven't mentioned which documentation you are using. I found the cluster tutorial sufficient to get me started: http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/ClusterSetup.html If you are looking for an easy way to spin up a small cluster with hadoop 2.2, try the hadoop2 branch of this vagrant setup: https://github.com/fs111/vagrant-hadoop-cluster/tree/hadoop2 - André On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Daniel Savard <daniel.sav...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to configure hadoop 2.2.0 from source code and I found the > instructions really crappy and incomplete. It is like they were written to > avoid someone can do the job himself and must contract someone else to do it > or buy a packaged version. > > It is about three days I am struggling with this stuff with partial success. > The documentation is less than clear and most of the stuff out there apply > to earlier version and they haven't been updated for version 2.2.0. > > I was able to setup HDFS, however I am still unable to use it. I am doing a > single node installation and the instruction page doesn't explain anything > beside telling you to do this and that without documenting what each thing > is doing and what choices are available and what guidelines you should > follow. There is even environment variables you are told to set, but nothing > is said about what they mean and to which value they should be set. It seems > it assumes prior knowledge of everything about hadoop. > > Anyone knows a site with proper documentation about hadoop or it's hopeless > and this whole thing is just a piece of toxicware? > > I am already looking for alternate solutions to hadoop which for sure will > be a nightmare to manage and install each time a new version, release will > become available. > > TIA > ----------------- > Daniel Savard -- André Kelpe an...@concurrentinc.com http://concurrentinc.com
