Re: Decommissioning Nodes in Production Cluster.

2013-02-12 Thread Robert Molina
Hi Dhanasekaran, I believe you are trying to ask if it is recommended to use the decommissioning feature to remove datanodes from your cluster, the answer would be yes. As far as how to do it, there should be some information here http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/FAQ that should help. Regards,

Re: Decommissioning Nodes in Production Cluster.

2013-02-12 Thread Benjamin Kim
Hi, I would like to add another scenario. What are the steps for removing a dead node when the server had a hard failure that is unrecoverable. Thanks, Ben On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 7:30:57 AM UTC-8, sudhakara st wrote: The decommissioning process is controlled by an exclude file, which

Re: Decommissioning Nodes in Production Cluster.

2013-02-12 Thread sudhakara st
The decommissioning process is controlled by an exclude file, which for HDFS is set by the* dfs.hosts.exclude* property, and for MapReduce by the*mapred.hosts.exclude * property. In most cases, there is one shared file,referred to as the exclude file.This exclude file name should be specified

Re: Decommissioning Nodes in Production Cluster.

2013-02-12 Thread shashwat shriparv
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Robert Molina rmol...@hortonworks.comwrote: to do it, there should be some information he this is best way to remove data node from a cluster. you have done the right thing. ∞ Shashwat Shriparv