Hunk: setting vix.nfs.dump.dir when jobs fail due to no space left on device

[burwell]

We are running Hunk/Splunk 6.3.1 with Hive.

We saw some tasks for Hunk jobs failing due to no space left on device error. Our HDFS experts recommending setting

 nfs.dump.dir = /tmp/.hdfs-nfs

I am testing this by setting

vix.nfs.dump.dir = /tmp/.hdfs-nfs

I wondered if others had run into this issue

[rdagan_splunk · Accepted solution]

As far as I can tell, what you are trying to do should work.
However, see this Hadoop bug regarding nfs.dump.dir: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-8274
Therefore, you will need to make sure that the Hadoop version you are using already includes this patch.