[HADOOP-2019] DistributedFileCache should support .tgz files in addition to jars and zip files

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.14.3
• Fix Version/s: 0.18.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Added support for .tar, .tgz and .tar.gz files in DistributedCache. File sizes are limited to 2GB.
• Assignee: Amareshwari Sriramadasu
• Reporter: Owen O'Malley
• Created: 09/Oct/07 23:52
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:52
• Resolved: 07/May/08 12:24

Description

Currently the distributed file cache only works with zip and jar archives, which don't work for larger than 2g. We should support .tgz archives also.

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-196 remove ant.jar from lib directory