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Posted to common-user@hadoop.apache.org by Samprita Hegde <sa...@gmail.com> on 2009/11/10 19:57:59 UTC

hadoop set up and clean up tasks

Hi ,
  I was looking to through Hadoop's logs and found that  it runs two extra
tasks set up task and a clean up task. I was just curious to know what are
these tasks for? Can someone please explain me why these tasks are needed?

Thanks!
Samprita