Package Dependancy Problem building HDFS Test Suite

I'm trying to build the HDFS Test Suite per these instructions: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToUseSystemTestFramework Specifically, I ran this: # git clone git://github.com/apache/hadoop-hdfs.git hdfs # cd hdfs # ant test-system -Dhadoop.conf.dir.deployed=/home/bchilds/local/hadoop-1.1.1/c

Re: Package Dependancy Problem building HDFS Test Suite

; > /usr/bin/build-classpath: error: Could not find jaxp_parser_impl Java > extension for this JVM > /usr/bin/build-classpath: error: Some specified jars were not found > > Does it ring a bell? > Cos > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 06:57PM, Brad Childs wrote: > &

Package Dependancy Problem building HDFS Test Suite

I'm trying to build the HDFS Test Suite per these instructions:   http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToUseSystemTestFramework I've done a clean install of RHEL 6 and Fedora 16 (vm's).  Both are yum update'ed to latest. Per the instructions, I ran these commands: # git clone git://github.com/apach

DistributedFileSystem.listStatus() - Why does it do partial listings then assemble?

Could someone explain why the DistributedFileSystem's listStatus() method does a piecemeal assembly of a directory listing within the method? Is there a locking issue? What if an element is added to the the directory during the operation?  What if elements are removed? It would make sense to me