[arch-general] Arch curiosity

[Savyasachee Jha]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:14 PM, James <ccaat at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> Savyasachee Jha <savya.jha91 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> > > So, specifically, here is what I'm interested in testing on Arch.
> > > Mesos, Chronos, Spark, Hadoop Lxqt(5?)
> > > and whatever file system to run (HDFS)?
> > > I believe all of these aforementioned packages, except for Chronos
> > > are available in Arch, in one form or another?
>
>
> > I think your curiosity about the file systems Arch supports can be
> > satisfied by this page:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/File_systems
>
> Thanks for the response, but, I'm not much for top posting, unless
> that is the norm for this list? (or you are mobile_phonic?).....
>
> Yes, just what I was looking for. It does not mention HDFS, but your
> package repository does show support for Hadoop. I believe that Hadoop
> must run on top of HDFS.....
>
> What I was really looking for is somebody on Arch that is running
> Mesos and Spark on top of BTRFS. Possible running hadoop on top of
> mesos. I see the dev "dseg" but is there a workgroup hacking away
> at mesos and the companion apps?  I see "spark" in the packages
> but I do not see support for the scala programing language. I can
> hack my way through on these and many other packages related to
> cluster computing, but it would greatly help if there is a
> group of like minded folks on Arch? A (mesos)cluster lead?
>
> So I'm looking for guidance as to what/how  to quickly pursue
> Mesos & spark & hadoop on top of Arch linux. That way I can
> build on top of btrfs later, unless that is what folks interested
> in distributed/cluster computing are already doing on Arch?
> (Arch) Birds of a feather on mesos et. al. ?
>
>
> James
>

Sorry for the top posting. My bad. Being half-awake does tend to make me
stupid. I can't help you in any of this, unfortunately, I just use Arch as
a desktop. :)

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Savyasachee Jha

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