> > So that explains how some user rebundlings don't work with us, sometimes. > What it doesn't explain is why running the regular, not-rebundled > "mahout-examples-0.5-SNAPSHOT-job.jar" via the bin/mahout shell > script is throwing this ClassNotFoundException for me (and it's happened > to Sean, and according to the list archives, others as well) in a production > cluster.
I agree that it doesn't explain. However, the code in hadoop that implements this mechanism, well, if you ask me ... it STINKS. It wouldn't surprise me if it fails in some case we haven't characterized. This would argue for Sean's 'one big jar' approach.
