[HADOOP-867] job client should generate input fragments before the job is submitted

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Owen O'Malley
• Created: 08/Jan/07 23:03
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:52
• Resolved: 21/Feb/07 20:46

Description

The JobClient should generate the input fragments and write them to dfs next to the job.xml parallel to the job.xml. This would offload the JobTracker, get rid of the job state where the job isn't initialized yet, and fix the problem with the class path for job initialization.