[HDFS-8478] Improve Solaris support in HDFS

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.0
• Component/s: build, native

Environment

Solaris x86, Solaris sparc

• Tags: Solaris Native C x86 sparc
• Assignee: Alan Burlison
• Reporter: Alan Burlison
• Created: 26/May/15 18:40
• Updated: 08/Jun/15 13:04

Description

At present the HDFS native components aren't fully supported on Solaris primarily due to differences between Linux and Solaris. This top-level task will be used to group together both existing and new issues related to this work. A second goal is to improve YARN performance and functionality on Solaris wherever possible.

Issue Links

• is related to: HADOOP-11985 Improve Solaris support in Hadoop
• is related to: MAPREDUCE-6390 Improve Solaris support in Hadoop Map/Reduce
• relates to: YARN-3719 Improve Solaris support in YARN

Sub-Tasks

• Migrate HDFS native build to new CMake framework: Resolved
• Make hadoop-hdfs-project Native code -Wall-clean: Resolved
• TestPipelinesFailover assumes Linux ifconfig: Resolved
• HDFS's use of mlock() is not portable: Open