Format command overwrites contents of non-empty shared edits dir if name dirs are empty without any prompting -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HDFS-3275 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3275 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: ha, name-node Affects Versions: 2.0.0 Reporter: Vinithra Varadharajan To reproduce: 1) Configure a NameNode with namedirs and a shared edits dir, all of which are empty. 2) Run hdfs namenode -format. Namedirs and shared edits dir gets populated. 2) Delete the contents of the namedirs. Leave the shared edits dir as is. Check the timestamps of the shared edits dir contents. 3) Run format again. The namedirs as well as the shared edits dir get formatted. The shared edits dir's contents have been replaced without any prompting. -- 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