[HADOOP-8034] Add comment/docs to enable assertions in hadoop-env.sh

• Type: Improvement
• Status: In Progress
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.0
• Component/s: conf, scripts
• Labels: newbie
• Target Version/s: 2.0.0-alpha
• Assignee: Brahma Reddy Battula
• Reporter: Eli Collins
• Created: 07/Feb/12 22:38
• Updated: 08/May/15 14:49

Description

For testing it's useful to enable jvm assertions. Let's add a commented out line to hadoop-env.sh that sets the "-enableassertions" and "-enablesystemassertions" jvm options to make it easier to run "debug" builds. Per HADOOP-8033 perhaps this should be HADOOP_JAVA_PLATFORM_OPTS.