Re: Decommissioning a node takes forever

2014-04-02 Thread Bharath Kumar
Hi All, Thanks for the excellent suggestion , once we find out the blocks which have replication factor more than actual datanodes and we run setrep = datanodes . Should the decomissiong proceed smoothly . From your past experiences how much time does a decommissioning take to complete . During

Re: Decommissioning a node takes forever

2014-03-26 Thread Azuryy Yu
Hi, which version HDFS you used? On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Bharath Kumar bharath...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am a novice hadoop user . I tried removing a node from my cluster of 2 nodes by adding the ip in excludes file and running dfsadmin -refreshNodes command . But

Re: Decommissioning a node takes forever

2014-03-26 Thread Mingjiang Shi
Hi Brahma, It might be some files have replication factor more than the actual number of datanodes, so namenode will not be able to decommission the machine because it cannot get the replica count settled. Run the following command to check the replication factor of the files on the hdfs, see if

RE: decommissioning a node

2014-03-04 Thread John Lilley
OK, restarting all services now fsck shows under-replication. Was it the NameNode restart? John From: John Lilley [mailto:john.lil...@redpoint.net] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2014 5:47 AM To: user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: decommissioning a node Our cluster has a node that reboot randomly. So