Does spark-ec2 support Windows?

[Nicholas Chammas <ni...@gmail.com>]

Is spark-ec2 supposed to run normally from Windows (e.g. to launch a
cluster)?

I ask because I don’t see mention of Windows anywhere in relation to
spark-ec2, and there is an open PR
<https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/4162/files#diff-ada66bbeb2f1327b508232ef6c3805a5R358>
that checks file permissions, and I’m not sure if we need to care about how
permission masks show up on Windows vs. Unix systems.

Nick
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Re: Does spark-ec2 support Windows?

[Shivaram Venkataraman <sh...@eecs.berkeley.edu>]

AFAIK we've never claimed that spark-ec2 is supported on Windows -- for
example in the code, we assume the existence of `ssh` as a binary on PATH
etc. That said I've never tried to run it from Windows, so I am not sure if
it can somehow be used.

Thanks
Shivaram

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Nicholas Chammas <
nicholas.chammas@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is spark-ec2 supposed to run normally from Windows (e.g. to launch a
> cluster)?
>
> I ask because I don’t see mention of Windows anywhere in relation to
> spark-ec2, and there is an open PR
> <
> https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/4162/files#diff-ada66bbeb2f1327b508232ef6c3805a5R358
> >
> that checks file permissions, and I’m not sure if we need to care about how
> permission masks show up on Windows vs. Unix systems.
>
> Nick
> ​
>