Do you mean the file specified by the 'dfs.hosts' parameter? That is not currently set in my configuration (the hosts are only specified in the slaves file).
-Chris On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Serge Blazhiyevskyy < serge.blazhiyevs...@nice.com> wrote: > Your nodes need to be in include and exclude file in the same time > > > Do you use both files? > > On 6/8/12 11:46 AM, "Chris Grier" <gr...@imchris.org> wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I'm in the trying to figure out how to decommission data nodes. Here's > >what > >I do: > > > >In hdfs-site.xml I have: > > > ><property> > > <name>dfs.hosts.exclude</name> > > <value>/opt/hadoop/hadoop-1.0.0/conf/exclude</value> > ></property> > > > >Add to exclude file: > > > >host1 > >host2 > > > >Then I run 'hadoop dfsadmin -refreshNodes'. On the web interface the two > >nodes now appear in both the 'Live Nodes' and 'Dead Nodes' (but there's > >nothing in the Decommissioning Nodes list). If I look at the datanode logs > >running on host1 or host2, I still see blocks being copied in and it does > >not appear that any additional replication was happening. > > > >What am I missing during the decommission process? > > > >-Chris > >
