Oh good point, does the Windows integration need native libs for
POSIX-y file system access? I know there are some binaries shipped for
this purpose but wasn't sure if that's part of what's covered in the
native libs message.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 6:01 PM, Steve Loughran <ste...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
> Think it may be needed on Windows, certainly if you start trying to work with 
> local files.
>
>
>> On 4 Aug 2015, at 00:34, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>>
>> It won't affect you if you're not actually running Hadoop. But it's
>> mainly things like Snappy/LZO compression which are implemented as
>> native libraries under the hood.
>
> There's a lot more in those native libs, primarily to bypass bits missing 
> from the java APIs (FS permissions) and to add new features (encryption, soon 
> erasure coding).
>
> The Hadoop file:// FS uses it on windows, at least for now
>

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