[MAPREDUCE-1826] Passing a directory for -file option does not work as expected.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.21.0
• Component/s: contrib/streaming
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Amareshwari Sriramadasu
• Created: 31/May/10 11:35
• Updated: 01/Jun/10 07:49

Description

When I tried passing a directory through -file option, the contents of directory are added to the job jar, not the directory itself. After MAPREDUCE-967, because the contents of the passed directory are not added to the jar unpack pattern, the files/dirs inside the passed directory are not unjarred. Thus they are not symlinked from cwd of the task.
Currently, there is no way for the user to access the files under the directory passed through -file option.

Issue Links

• relates to: MAPREDUCE-1697 Document the behavior of -file option in streaming and deprecate it in favour of generic -files option.