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Matt Foley commented on HDFS-1905: ---------------------------------- bq. What is a use case in which a cluster ID would be manually specified? I can imagine some nasty manual recovery process where you might wish to initialize a clean environment with a specified clusterId, followed by manual injection of data recovered from image and edits files. Not something I would want to do :-) but probably should be supported. However, I agree "-format" without other args should create a new cid if no old cid is available. A prompt would be appropriate, same as currently done with re-use of an available old cid. > Improve the usability of namenode -format > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: HDFS-1905 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1905 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Components: name-node > Affects Versions: 0.23.0 > Reporter: Bharath Mundlapudi > Assignee: Bharath Mundlapudi > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.23.0 > > > While setting up 0.23 version based cluster, i ran into this issue. When i > issue a format namenode command, which got changed in 23, it should let the > user know to how to use this command in case where complete options were not > specified. > ./hdfs namenode -format > I get the following error msg, still its not clear what and how user should > use this command. > 11/05/09 15:36:25 ERROR namenode.NameNode: > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Format must be provided with clusterid > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.format(NameNode.java:1483) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:1623) > at > org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:1689) > > The usability of this command can be improved. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira