Include Unix group name in JobConf

• Key: HADOOP-3892
• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Trivial
• Assignee: Matei Zaharia
• Reporter: Matei Zaharia
• Component/s: conf
• Fix Version/s: 0.19.0

Description

A feature that was requested for the fair scheduler was to use a user's unix group name as their pool name so their jobs automatically have the right resource allocations. This might be useful for HADOOP-3445 as well.

Comments

[Matei Zaharia]

Here's a patch that calls this property group.name, similar to user.name.

[Hadoop QA]

-1 overall. Here are the results of testing the latest attachment
http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12387392/HADOOP-3892.patch
against trunk revision 682978.

+1 @author. The patch does not contain any @author tags.

-1 tests included. The patch doesn't appear to include any new or modified tests.
Please justify why no tests are needed for this patch.

+1 javadoc. The javadoc tool did not generate any warning messages.

+1 javac. The applied patch does not increase the total number of javac compiler warnings.

+1 findbugs. The patch does not introduce any new Findbugs warnings.

+1 release audit. The applied patch does not increase the total number of release audit warnings.

+1 core tests. The patch passed core unit tests.

+1 contrib tests. The patch passed contrib unit tests.

Test results: http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Hadoop-Patch/3006/testReport/
Findbugs warnings: http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Hadoop-Patch/3006/artifact/trunk/build/test/findbugs/newPatchFindbugsWarnings.html
Checkstyle results: http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Hadoop-Patch/3006/artifact/trunk/build/test/checkstyle-errors.html
Console output: http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Hadoop-Patch/3006/console

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[Johan Oskarsson]

Committed, thanks Matei!

[Hudson]

Integrated in Hadoop-trunk #581 (See http://hudson.zones.apache.org/hudson/job/Hadoop-trunk/581/)