Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date submitted |
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ePub | Page app. C first paragraph |
I am trying to get a copy of the example NCDC weather data used in the book, but encounter an error. There seems to be a problem in the security configuration of the S3 bucket containing the data. |
Marcel.G | May 26, 2013 |
Page 194 5th Paragraph |
In book it is mentioned that "Requests for map tasks are made first and with a higher priority than those for reduce tasks", while in actual hadoop requests for containers for reducers are of higher priority. The containers requests for map tasks are of higher priority only when they were retried(in case previous attempt of map task failed). |
Abhishek Modi | Jul 29, 2016 | |
Printed, PDF, | Page 618 README file to build examples |
The only instructions for building the example code are in the README file at the top of the GitHub tree. The compilation dies at the HBASE step with what appears to be a source code error in the routine HBaseStationCli.java |
John Ellenberger | Aug 16, 2012 |