http://markmail.org/message/2xtywnnppacywsya shows we can exit safe mode explicitly and just delete these corrupted files.
But I don't know how to exit safe mode explicitly. Zheng -----Original Message----- From: Joey Pan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 2:01 PM To: core-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: replication issue and safe mode pending When starting hadoop, it stays in safe mode forever. Looking into the issue, seems there is problem with block replication. Command hadoop fsck / shows error msg: /XXXXX/part-00007.deflate: CORRUPT block blk_1402039344260425079 /XXXXX/part-00007.deflate: MISSING 1 blocks of total size 2294 B...................... Tried to restart the fs , it doesn't solve the problem. Question: how to find the data node that contains corrupted/missing blocks? Thanks, Joey
