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Konstantin Shvachko commented on HDFS-1508: ------------------------------------------- Dhruba, I don't think our discussion is productive here. My logic is simple. There are 2 ways to move on with this: - either you need to address the validity of proposed changes by analyzing multiple failure scenarios, - or you should face operational issues to solve the problem with existing features. If you are arguing that operational approach doesn't work for you, then you have to address the validity concerns, which you don't. Would you rather risk loosing the last image while testing it on a live cluster running on a spare tire? I agree with Sanjay that 1073 will simplify the analysis. > 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, > savenamespaceWithoutSafemode2.txt, savenamespaceWithoutSafemode3.txt, > savenamespaceWithoutSafemode4.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.