[HADOOP-1660] add support for native library toDistributedCache

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.16.0

Environment

unix (different handling would be required for windows)

• Assignee: Arun Murthy
• Reporter: Alejandro Abdelnur
• Created: 27/Jul/07 05:59
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:52
• Resolved: 08/Jan/08 20:33

Description

Currently if a M/R job depends on JNI based component the dynamic library must be available in all the task nodes. This is not possible specially when you have not control on the cluster machines, just using it as a service.

It should be possible to specify using the DistributedCache what are the native libraries a job needs.

For example via a new method 'public void addLibrary(Path libraryPath, JobConf conf)'.

The added libraries would make it to the local FS of the task nodes (same way as cached resources) but instead been part of the classpath they would be copied to a lib directory and that lib directory would be added t the LD_LIBRARY_PATH of the task JVM.

An alternative would be to set the '-Djava.library.path=' task JVM parameter to the lib directory above. However, this would break for libraries that depend on other libraries as the dependent one would not be in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and the OS would fail to find it as it is not the JVM the one doing the load of the dependent one.

For uncached usage of native libraries, a special directory in the JAR could be used for native libraries. But I'd argue that the DistributedCache enhancement would be enough, and if somebody wants to use a native library s/he should use the DistributedCached. Or a JobConf addLibrary method that uses the DistributedCached under the hood at submission time.

Issue Links

• is cloned by: HADOOP-3298 Add support for transitive native library dependencies in DistributedCache