Hi,

AFAIK, the mapred.local.dir property refers to a set of directories under
which different types of data related to mapreduce jobs are stored - for
e.g. intermediate data, localized files for a job etc. The working
directory for a mapreduce job is configured under a sub directory within
one of the directories configured in this property.

The workingDir property of the FileSystem class simply seems to indicate
the working directory for a given filesystem as set by applications.

They don't seem very related per se, unless I am missing something ?

Thanks
Hemanth

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Jay Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi guys:  What is the relationship between the "working directory" in the
> FileSystem class (filesystem.workingDir), compared with the
> mapred.local.dir properties ?
>
> It seems like these would essentially refer to the same thing?
> --
> Jay Vyas
> http://jayunit100.blogspot.com
>

what do you mean by "workingdir for a filesystem" ?  I never thought that a
fileSystem should
need or have a special workingDir ?
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Hemanth Yamijala <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> AFAIK, the mapred.local.dir property refers to a set of directories under
> which different types of data related to mapreduce jobs are stored - for
> e.g. intermediate data, localized files for a job etc. The working
> directory for a mapreduce job is configured under a sub directory within
> one of the directories configured in this property.
>
> The workingDir property of the FileSystem class simply seems to indicate
> the working directory for a given filesystem as set by applications.
>
> They don't seem very related per se, unless I am missing something ?
>
> Thanks
> Hemanth
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Jay Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys:  What is the relationship between the "working directory" in the
>> FileSystem class (filesystem.workingDir), compared with the
>> mapred.local.dir properties ?
>>
>> It seems like these would essentially refer to the same thing?
>> --
>> Jay Vyas
>> http://jayunit100.blogspot.com
>>
>
>
--
Jay Vyas
http://jayunit100.blogspot.com

Jay,

For your FS question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_directory
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Jay Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> what do you mean by "workingdir for a filesystem" ?  I never thought that
> a fileSystem should
> need or have a special workingDir ?
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Hemanth Yamijala <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> AFAIK, the mapred.local.dir property refers to a set of directories under
>> which different types of data related to mapreduce jobs are stored - for
>> e.g. intermediate data, localized files for a job etc. The working
>> directory for a mapreduce job is configured under a sub directory within
>> one of the directories configured in this property.
>>
>> The workingDir property of the FileSystem class simply seems to indicate
>> the working directory for a given filesystem as set by applications.
>>
>> They don't seem very related per se, unless I am missing something ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Hemanth
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Jay Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys:  What is the relationship between the "working directory" in
>>> the FileSystem class (filesystem.workingDir), compared with the
>>> mapred.local.dir properties ?
>>>
>>> It seems like these would essentially refer to the same thing?
>>> --
>>> Jay Vyas
>>> http://jayunit100.blogspot.com
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Jay Vyas
> http://jayunit100.blogspot.com
>

--
Harsh J