[HADOOP-4617] hadoop-default.xml should not be in conf/ directory

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Component/s: conf
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Doug Cutting
• Created: 07/Nov/08 17:51
• Updated: 05/Nov/10 15:16
• Resolved: 05/Nov/10 15:16

Description

It is error prone to keep hadoop-default.xml in the conf/ directory. Folks copy configuration directories between releases, but this file is strongly tied to a particualr release and should not be either editted or used with other than the release it comes with.

Issue Links

• is part of: HADOOP-4631 Split the default configurations into 3 parts