From fe4f54a41301159fdd9159e4a8b8af7243b0d7e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Bayer Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:04:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] SQOOP-195. Documentation tip on specifying MR job name. Documentation change to highlight how to use hadoop generic options to set the MR job name. From: Ahmed Radwan git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/sqoop/trunk@1150038 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- src/docs/user/tools.txt | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/docs/user/tools.txt b/src/docs/user/tools.txt index a05dd8bf..d5807ffa 100644 --- a/src/docs/user/tools.txt +++ b/src/docs/user/tools.txt @@ -156,9 +156,14 @@ single dash character (+-+), whereas tool-specific arguments start with two dashes (+\--+), unless they are single character arguments such as +-P+. The +-conf+, +-D+, +-fs+ and +-jt+ arguments control the configuration -and Hadoop server settings. The +-files+, +-libjars+, and +-archives+ -arguments are not typically used with Sqoop, but they are included as -part of Hadoop's internal argument-parsing system. +and Hadoop server settings. For example, the +-D mapred.job.name=+ can +be used to set the name of the MR job that Sqoop launches, if not specified, +the name defaults to the jar name for the job - which is derived from the used +table name. + +The +-files+, +-libjars+, and +-archives+ arguments are not typically used with +Sqoop, but they are included as part of Hadoop's internal argument-parsing +system. Using Options Files to Pass Arguments