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authornemccarthy <nathan@nemccarthy.me>2015-03-17 09:33:11 -0700
committerJosh Rosen <joshrosen@databricks.com>2015-03-17 09:33:11 -0700
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[SPARK-6313] Add config option to disable file locks/fetchFile cache to ...
...support NFS mounts. This is a work around for now with the goal to find a more permanent solution. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6313 Author: nemccarthy <nathan@nemccarthy.me> Closes #5036 from nemccarthy/master and squashes the following commits: 2eaaf42 [nemccarthy] [SPARK-6313] Update config wording doc for spark.files.useFetchCache 5de7eb4 [nemccarthy] [SPARK-6313] Add config option to disable file locks/fetchFile cache to support NFS mounts
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+ <td><code>spark.files.useFetchCache</code></td>
+ <td>true</td>
+ <td>
+ If set to true (default), file fetching will use a local cache that is shared by executors
+ that belong to the same application, which can improve task launching performance when
+ running many executors on the same host. If set to false, these caching optimizations will
+ be disabled and all executors will fetch their own copies of files. This optimization may be
+ disabled in order to use Spark local directories that reside on NFS filesystems (see
+ <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6313">SPARK-6313</a> for more details).
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<td><code>spark.files.overwrite</code></td>
<td>false</td>
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