[jira] [Created] (MAPREDUCE-5278) Perf: Distributed cache is broken when JT staging dir is not on the default FS

["Xi Fang (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Xi Fang created MAPREDUCE-5278:
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             Summary: Perf: Distributed cache is broken when JT staging dir is not on the default FS
                 Key: MAPREDUCE-5278
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-5278
             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: distributed-cache
    Affects Versions: 1-win
         Environment: Windows
            Reporter: Xi Fang


Today, we set the JobTracker staging dir ("mapreduce.jobtracker.staging.root.dir) to point to HDFS even though ASV is the default file system. There are a few reason why this config was chosen:
To prevent leak of the storage account creds to the user's storage account (IOW, keep job.xml in the cluster). This is needed until HADOOP-444 is fixed.
It uses HDFS for the transient job files what is good for two reasons – a) it does not flood the user's storage account with irrelevant data/files b) it leverages HDFS locality for small files
However, this approach conflicts with how distributed cache caching works, completely negating the feature's functionality.
When files are added to the distributed cache (thru files/achieves/libjars hadoop generic options), they are copied to the job tracker staging dir only if they reside on a file system different that the jobtracker's. Later on, this path is used as a "key" to cache the files locally on the tasktracker's machine, and avoid localization (download/unzip) of the distributed cache files if they are already localized.
In our configuration the caching is completely disabled and we always end up copying dist cache files to the JT staging dir first and localizing them on the tasktracker machine second.
This is especially not good for Oozie scenarios as Oozie uses dist cache to populate Hive/Pig jars throughout the cluster.
Easy workaround is to config mapreduce.jobtracker.staging.root.dir in mapred-site.xml to be on the default FS.

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