Thanks Colin. I filed https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3892 . I'll look into it.
Thank you, Vlad ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colin McCabe" <cmcc...@alumni.cmu.edu> To: hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 1:19:37 PM Subject: Re: MiniDFSCluster Hi Vlad, I think you might be on to something. File a JIRA? It should be a simple improvement, I think. cheers, Colin On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Vladimir Rozov <v.ro...@comcast.net> wrote: > There are few methods on MiniDFSCluster class that are declared as static > (getBlockFile, getStorageDirPath), though as long as MiniDFSCluster is not a > singleton they should be instance methods not class methods. In my tests I > see that starting second instance of MiniDFSCluster invalidates the first > instance if I don’t change cluster base directory (existing data directory is > fully deleted), but at the same time static declaration of getBlockFile and > getStorageDirPath does not allow base directory to be changed without > affecting functionality. > > > > Thank you, > > > > Vlad
