Re: Inconsistency in namenode's and datanode's namespaceID

2008-07-03 Thread David Kellogg
When I reformat the namenode, I also delete the data and name directories to avoid this problem. Other times, I changed the version number in the VERSION file to what it was expecting. I did the latter only during development, though. I would not attempt this on the production cluster. Da

Re: Inconsistency in namenode's and datanode's namespaceID

2008-07-03 Thread Konstantin Shvachko
Yes this is a known bug. http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1212 You should manually remove "current" directory from every data-node after reformatting the name-node and start the cluster again. I do not believe there is any other way. Thanks, --Konstantin Taeho Kang wrote: No, I don't

Re: Inconsistency in namenode's and datanode's namespaceID

2008-07-02 Thread Taeho Kang
No, I don't think it's a bug. Your datanodes' data partition/directory was probably used in other HDFS setup and thus had other namespaceID. Or you could've used other partition/directory for your new HDFS setup by setting different values for "dfs.data.dir" on your datanode. But in this case, yo

Inconsistency in namenode's and datanode's namespaceID

2008-07-02 Thread Xuan Dzung Doan
I was following the quickstart guide to run pseudo-distributed operations with Hadoop 0.16.4. I got it to work successfully the first time. But I failed to repeat the steps (I tried to re-do everything from re-formating the HDFS). Then by looking at the log files of the daemons, I found out the