[MAPREDUCE-4645] Providing a random seed to Slive should make the sequence of filenames completely deterministic

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.1, 2.0.0-alpha
• Fix Version/s: 0.23.4
• Component/s: performance, test
• Labels: performance test
• Target Version/s: 0.23.4
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Ravi Prakash
• Reporter: Ravi Prakash
• Created: 07/Sep/12 19:28
• Updated: 25/Sep/12 15:08
• Resolved: 24/Sep/12 21:30

Description

Using the -random seed option still doesn't produce a deterministic sequence of filenames. Hence there's no way to replicate the performance test. If I'm providing a seed, its obvious that I want the test to be reproducible.