[jira] Created: (MAPREDUCE-2181) mapreduce.jobtracker.staging.root.dir default is unreasonable

["Todd Lipcon (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

mapreduce.jobtracker.staging.root.dir default is unreasonable
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                 Key: MAPREDUCE-2181
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2181
             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: job submission, jobtracker
    Affects Versions: 0.22.0
            Reporter: Todd Lipcon


The default for mapreduce.jobtracker.staging.root.dir is set to ${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/staging, which doesn't really work on a normal cluster. hadoop.tmp.dir is overloaded in different places where sometimes it is a local path and sometimes it is a path on HDFS, which makes things even more confusing.

We should change the default for the staging directory to /user (as is suggested by the description of that configuration) and then fix LocalJobRunner to use a different configuration -- perhaps mapreduce.localjobrunner.staging.root.dir -- to make it clear that it's a *local* path. That one could legitimately default to something inside hadoop.tmp.dir.

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