[HADOOP-3317] add default port for hdfs namenode

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.18.0
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change, Reviewed
• Release Note: Changed the default port for "hdfs:" URIs to be 8020, so that one may simply use URIs of the form "hdfs://example.com/dir/file".
• Assignee: Doug Cutting
• Reporter: Doug Cutting
• Created: 26/Apr/08 03:49
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:43
• Resolved: 06/May/08 23:23

Description

Perhaps we should add a default port number for the HDFS namenode. This would simplify URIs. Instead of hdfs://host.net:9999/foo/bar folks would be able to just use hdfs://host.net/foo/bar in most cases. Thoughts?

Issue Links

• is related to: MAPREDUCE-566 Add default port for jobtracker (mapred.job.tracker)