Hi Li AFAIK 0.21 is not really a stable version of hadoop . So if this upgrade is on a production cluster it'd be better to go in with 0.20.203. Regards Bejoy K S
-----Original Message----- From: Shouguo Li <the1plum...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:41:46 To: <user@hive.apache.org> Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: upgrading hadoop package hey guys, i'm planning to upgrade my hadoop cluster from 0.20.1 to 0.21 to take advantage of new bz2 splitting feature. i found a simple upgrade guide, http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hadoop_Upgrade but i can't find anything that's related to hive. do we need to do anything for hive? is the migration transparent to hive? thx!