[HADOOP-5521] Remove dependency of testcases on RESTART_COUNT

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.20.0
• Component/s: test
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: This patch makes TestJobHistory and its dependent testcases independent of RESTART_COUNT.
• Assignee: Ravi Gummadi
• Reporter: Amar Kamat
• Created: 18/Mar/09 04:11
• Updated: 23/Apr/09 19:18
• Resolved: 19/Mar/09 12:20

Description

There are 2 usecases for this :

1. RESTART_COUNT is not guaranteed to be flushed to fs.
2. HADOOP-5394 plans to discontinue logging restart-count to job history file.

Issue Links

• blocks: HADOOP-5394 JobTracker might schedule 2 attempts of the same task with the same attempt id across restarts