[Condor-users] condor_hdfs wrapper moving to contrib section

[Greg Thain <gthain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

condor_hdfs is a condor daemon which manages the running of the Hadoop 
distributed filesystems daemon.  We've shipped it with Condor since 
Condor version 7.4, and also included the jar files from the Apache 
Hadoop project which implement the HDFS.  However, Apache HDFS is a fast 
moving project, and frequently, the version of hdfs jar files we ship 
has not been the one which Condor users want.  This is particularly 
problematic because of the tight coupling between the APIs in the 
filesystem and those of tools above it, like Hadoop Map Reduce.

So, in order to increase flexibility for Condor sites, as of Condor 7.8, 
we will be moving the condor_hdfs daemon to the contrib section, and we 
will stop distributing hdfs jar files.  Instead, we want to encourage 
sites to download themselves the particular version of hdfs they need.


Thanks,

The Condor Team