It depends on the failure.
For some failure modes, the disk just becomes very slow. On 3/26/08 4:39 PM, "Cagdas Gerede" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering > 1) what happens if a data node is alive but its harddrive fails? Does it > throw an exception and dies? > 2) If It continues to run and continue to do blockreporting, is there a > console showing datanodes with healthy hard drives and unhealthy hard > drives? I know the web server of the name node shows runing and not running > data nodes, but I am not sure if it differentiates between datanodes with > healthy and unhealthy hard drives. > > Thanks for your help > Cagdas
