[HADOOP-6376] slaves file to have a header specifying the format of conf/slaves file

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.0
• Component/s: conf
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Karthik K
• Reporter: Karthik K
• Created: 16/Nov/09 22:50
• Updated: 15/Nov/11 00:50
• Resolved: 24/Feb/11 01:09

Description

When we open the file conf/slaves - it is not immediately obvious what the format of the file is ( a comma-separated list or one per each line). The docs confirm it is 1 per line.

Specifying the information by means of a comment in the template so that it is easy to modify the same, and self-explanatory.