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Hari Mankude commented on HDFS-2866: ------------------------------------ @Aaron, name.dir and shared.edits.dir are nfs mounted. Regarding second question, the logs are from the newly active NN. The newly active NN just took over from the previous NN which was killed. I have highlighted the logs from transitiontoActive. <property> <name>dfs.name.dir</name> <value>/homes/hortonha/namenode/fsimage</value> </property> <property> <name>dfs.namenode.shared.edits.dir</name> <value>/homes/hortonha/namenode</value> </property> > Standby does not start up due to a gap in transaction id > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-2866 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2866 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: ha > Affects Versions: HA branch (HDFS-1623) > Reporter: Hari Mankude > Priority: Critical > > Standby notices a gap in the transaction id in the shared.edits directory. > The transactions in dfs.edits.dir does not seem to have the gap. The gap > happens during a failover. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira