I'm starting to think I'm doing things wrong. I have an absolute path to dfs.hosts.exclude that includes what i want decommissioned, and a dfs.hosts which includes those i want to remain commissioned (this points to the slaves file).
Nothing seems to do anything... What am I missing? -- David On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:48 AM, David Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to decommission some nodes. The process I tried to follow is: > > 1) add them to conf/excluding (hadoop-site points there) > 2) invoke hadoop dfsadmin -refreshNodes > > This returns immediately, so I thought it was done, so i killed off > the cluster and rebooted without the new nodes, but then fsck was very > unhappy... > > Is there some way to watch the progress of decomissioning? > > Thanks, > -- David >
