On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:09 AM, David Wei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that we need to restart the whole hadoop system in order to add new > nodes inside the cluster. Any solution for us that no need for the > rebooting?
>From what I know so far, you have to start the HDFS dameon (which reads the 'slaves' file) to 'let it know' which are the data nodes. So everytime you add a new DataNode, I believe you will have to restarted the daemon, which is like re-initiating the NameNode. Hope I am not very wrong :-) Best, Amit -- Amit Kumar Saha http://blogs.sun.com/amitsaha/ http://amitsaha.in.googlepages.com/ Skype: amitkumarsaha
