[jira] [Commented] (MAPREDUCE-1471) FileOutputCommitter does not safely clean up it's temporary files

["Robert Joseph Evans (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Robert Joseph Evans commented on MAPREDUCE-1471:
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Jim, it should not be too difficult for you to take the existing FileOutputCommitter and modify it to do what you want.  Be aware though that going to the 2.0 line FileOutputCommitter has changed so that if an application master crashes it can recover and start over without needing to rerun anything that finished successfully before.  Just be aware that the directory structure is different and when upmerging to trunk/2.0 you will probably need to modify your code.
                
> FileOutputCommitter does not safely clean up it's temporary files
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>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-1471
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1471
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.20.1
>            Reporter: Jim Finnessy
>   Original Estimate: 4h
>  Remaining Estimate: 4h
>
> When the FileOutputCommitter cleans up during it's cleanupJob method, it potentially deletes the temporary files of other concurrent jobs.
> Since all the temporary files for all concurrent jobs are written to working_path/_temporary/ any concurrent tasks that have the same working_path will remove all currently executing jobs when it removes working_path/_temporary during job cleanup.
> If the file name output is guaranteed by the client application to be unique, the temporary files/directories should also be guaranteed to be unique to avoid this problem. Suggest modifying cleanupJob to only remove files that it created itself.

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