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dhruba borthakur commented on HDFS-1508: ---------------------------------------- > I just wanted the -f flag since on a system Sounds good, I will enhance the patch. > we need to make sure that the BNN/SNN does not fail or get confused It does not get confused. It will (correctly) detect the race and the SecondaryNode/CheckpointNode will try to create a fresh checkpoint form scratch. > Ability to do savenamespace without being in safemode > ----------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.