To answer your questions (adding to what alex already told you)
> 1) When you restart the cluster with a higher than previous
> replication value. Does it also apply to existing blocks or only to new
> blocks being created ?
it applies only to NEWLY created blocks
>
> 2) Does the balancer take into account under replication of blocks
> or does it blindly start moving existing blocks to reach threshold ?
i have no idea if the replication is performed before moving or not ...
should be the case for more security
Cheers
Arun Ramakrishnan a écrit :
Hi guys.
I have more than a specific question. I am going to layout the steps I
have taken. Please comment on what I can do better.
I was trying to to add 5 nodes to my existing 10 node cluster and also
increase the replication factor from 2 to 3.
I thought I don’t have to run the balancer cause it would most likely
put the new replicas into the new nodes.
There are about 500k blocks.
I wanted to get it all stabilized(replication and balancing) within 24
hours. Its more than 24 hours now and fsck reports 30% under
replication. Is there a way to force hdfs to use balance/replicate more
aggressively.
It would be great if someone explained what/when things happen to blocks
in the context of
1) Rebalancing
2) –setrep
3) Restarting cluster with a higher/lower replication factor.
A few questions and a few issues here.
1) When you restart the cluster with a higher than previous
replication value. Does it also apply to existing blocks or only to new
blocks being created ?
2) Does the balancer take into account under replication of blocks
or does it blindly start moving existing blocks to reach threshold ?
A very specific problem . I am having this strange problem where the
–setrep hangs on one particular block for hours. Is this because its
corrupt ?. But, fsck said its healthy.
Thanks
Arun
