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Cristian Ivascu commented on HDFS-762:
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A more logical description of the proposed patch (cannot edit previous comment):

The attached file contains a patch that changes the behavior of the Balancer() 
constructor (with no parameters) to basically do nothing (like the 0.20 
version), and a test in the TestBalancer class. 

> Trying to start the balancer throws a NPE
> -----------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-762
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-762
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.21.0
>            Reporter: Cristian Ivascu
>             Fix For: 0.21.0
>
>         Attachments: 0001-corrected-balancer-constructor.patch
>
>
> When trying to run the balancer, I get a NullPointerException:
> 2009-11-10 11:08:14,235 ERROR 
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer: 
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>         at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.BlockPlacementPolicy.getInstance(BlockPlacementPolicy.java:161)
>         at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer.checkReplicationPolicyCompatibility(Balancer.java:784)
>         at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer.<init>(Balancer.java:792)
>         at 
> org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer.main(Balancer.java:814)
> This happens when trying to use bin/start-balancer or bin/hdfs balancer 
> -threshold 10
> The config files (hdfs-site and core-site) have as fs.default.name 
> hdfs://namenode:9000.

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