Why 'mapred-site.xml' is not included in the latest Hadoop 2.2.0?

Question

Latest build of Hadoop provides mapred-site.xml.template Do we need to create a new mapred-site.xml file using this? Any link on documentation or explanation related to Hadoop 2.2.0 will be much appreciated.

Answer 1

I believe it's still required. For our basic Hadoop 2.2.0 2-node cluster setup that we have working I did the following from the setup documentation.

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From the base of the Hadoop installation, edit the etc/hadoop/mapred-site.xml file. A new configuration option for Hadoop 2 is the capability to specify a framework name for MapReduce, setting the mapreduce.framework.name property. In this install we will use the value of "yarn" to tell MapReduce that it will run as a YARN application. First, copy the template file to the mapred-site.xml.

cp mapred-site.xml.template mapred-site.xml

Next, copy the following into Hadoop etc/hadoop/mapred-site.xml file and remove the original empty tags.

 <configuration> 
 <property>   
 <name>mapreduce.framework.name</name>  
 <value>yarn</value>  
 </property>   
 </configuration>

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Wrt documentation, I found this the most useful. Also, etc/hosts configs for cluster setup and other cluster related configs were a bit hard to figure out.