Problem starting tasktracker in hadoop under windows

Question

I am trying to use hadoop under windows and I am running into a problem when I want to start tasktracker. For example:

$bin/start-all.sh

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Answer 1

I was running into this issue on an installation of 1.0.3 on Windows server. I changed the default directory in hdfs-site.xml so that the directory that hadoop creates for the dfs is a subdir of the cygwin directory like this...

...

 
    dfs.name.dir
    c:/cygwin/usr/mydir/dfs/logs
 
 
    dfs.data.dir
    c:/cygwin/usr/mydir/dfs/data
 

This seemed to resolve the problem.

The apache documentation for the config files is here