[SPARK-1079] EC2 scripts should allow mounting as XFS or EXT4

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: EC2
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Patrick Wendell
• Created: 11/Feb/14 20:05
• Updated: 27/Jan/16 10:10
• Resolved: 27/Jan/16 10:10

Description

These offer much better performance when running benchmarks: I've done a hacked together implementation here, but it would be better if you could officially give a filesystem as an argument in the ec2 scripts:

https://github.com/pwendell/spark-ec2/blob/c63995ce014df61ec1c61276687767e789eb79f7/setup-slave.sh#L21