Yes. This prevents accidental overwrite, and mimics how Hadoop/HDFS generally act.
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:58 PM, jeanbabyxu <jessica...@aexp.com> wrote: > I was able to manually clear out the output directory by using > > bin/hadoop dfs -rmr output. > > But do we have to remove all content in the output directory manually every > time we run mahout? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Error-Running-mahout-core-0-5-job-jar-tp3846385p3849480.html > Sent from the Mahout User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.