You only have to refresh nodes if you're making use of an allows file. Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 1, 2012, at 18:29, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is this the right procedure to add nodes? I took some from hadoop wiki FAQ: > > http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/FAQ > > 1. Update conf/slave > 2. on the slave nodes start datanode and tasktracker > 3. hadoop balancer > > Do I also need to run dfsadmin -refreshnodes?
