>> As a result, the entire HDFS file system is corrupted now. >> > > Tell more Michael. Are blocks missing?
Yes. > How does the corruption manifest? Hadoop fsck prints out a lot of missing blocks and says that the file system is corrupted. The region servers failed to start because of that. Now I upped the number of open files, removed the file system and ran the test again. (it was a test environment). M.
