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http://www.nabble.com/Namenode-cluster-and-fail-over-td15903856.html --- Peeyush On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:44 -0700, Xavier Stevens wrote: > What happens to your data if the namenode fails (hardware failure)? > Assuming you replace it with a fresh box can you restore all of your > data from the slaves? > > -Xavier
