Hi Al,
Usually this indicates that the file was renamed or deleted while it was
still being created by the client. Unfortunately it's not the most
descriptive :)
-Todd
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:36 AM, Al Lias <al.l...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this warning is written in FSFileSystem.java/completeFileInternal().
> It
> makes the calling code in NameNode.java throwing an IOException.
>
> FSFileSystem.java
> ...
> if (fileBlocks == null ) {
> NameNode.stateChangeLog.warn(
> "DIR* NameSystem.completeFile: "
> + "failed to complete " + src
> + " because dir.getFileBlocks() is null " +
> " and pendingFile is " +
> ((pendingFile == null) ? "null" :
> ("from " + pendingFile.getClientMachine()))
> );
> ...
>
> What is the meaning of this warning? Any Idea what could have gone wrong
> in such a case?
>
> (This popped up through hbase, but as this code is in HDFS, I am asking
> this list)
>
> Thx
>
> Al
>
--
Todd Lipcon
Software Engineer, Cloudera
