Re: HDFS will not start after Namenode ran out of disk space

2010-09-29 Thread Gerrit Jansen van Vuuren
Hi, We had the same problem om our hadoop cluster a year ago. What happenned is the edit log for the namenode metadata has become corrupt, from your stack trace this is what's happened to your cluster. Do you have any backup copies of this data? If not the only option you have is to start over an

HDFS will not start after Namenode ran out of disk space

2010-09-28 Thread Ayon Sinha
Our Namenode ran out of diskspace and became unresponsive. Tried to bounce DFS and it fails with the following error. How do I recover HDFS even at the cost of loosing a whole bunch on recent edits. 2010-09-28 00:45:00,777 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.metrics.RpcMetrics: Initializing RPC Metri