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Konstantin Shvachko commented on HDFS-1508:
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Dhruba, what is the use case for that? Why safemode is a problem.
It could more complicated than just removing the verification. Think of how it
will work with checkpointing, if saveNameSpace() comes in the middle of a
checkpoint. I think this was the main reason why it required safe mode.
> Ability to do savenamespace without being in safemode
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> Key: HDFS-1508
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1508
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: name-node
> Reporter: dhruba borthakur
> Assignee: dhruba borthakur
> Attachments: savenamespaceWithoutSafemode.txt
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> In the current code, the administrator can run savenamespace only after
> putting the namenode in safemode. This means that applications that are
> writing to HDFS encounters errors because the NN is in safemode. We would
> like to allow saveNamespace even when the namenode is not in safemode.
> The savenamespace command already acquires the FSNamesystem writelock. There
> is no need to require that the namenode is in safemode too.
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