Re: How to recover a namenode?

2010-09-21 Thread Boris Shkolnik
You may want to check importcheckpoint option too http://hadoop.apache.org/hdfs/docs/current/hdfs_user_guide.html#Import+Checkpoint Boris. On 9/17/10 1:36 AM, "ChingShen" wrote: I think I got it! Step by step as following: 1. put two files into hdfs. 2. kill -9 ${namenode_pid}. 3. delete t

Re: How to recover a namenode?

2010-09-17 Thread Allen Wittenauer
On Sep 17, 2010, at 1:36 AM, ChingShen wrote: > I think I got it! > > Step by step as following: > > 1. put two files into hdfs. > 2. kill -9 ${namenode_pid}. > 3. delete the whole ${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs directory of NN. > 4. copy the dfs directory of BN to NN. > 5. start-up NN. > > It works. I

Re: How to recover a namenode?

2010-09-17 Thread ChingShen
I think I got it! Step by step as following: 1. put two files into hdfs. 2. kill -9 ${namenode_pid}. 3. delete the whole ${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs directory of NN. 4. copy the dfs directory of BN to NN. 5. start-up NN. It works. Is it correct? Shen On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:58 PM, ChingShen

How to recover a namenode?

2010-09-16 Thread ChingShen
Hi all, I have a Backup Node (BN) and a active NameNode (NN), but if NN failed, how to recover the NN? Is possible BN replace NN directly? Any resources? Shen