Re: decommissioning datanodes

2012-06-12 Thread madhu phatak
see this discussion http://search-hadoop.com/m/Hxigg2WeEQu/decommissioning+datanodes+&subj=decommissioning+datanodes On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:42 PM, varun kumar wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to remove nodes from my cluster *gracefully*. I added the > following lines to

decommissioning datanodes

2012-06-12 Thread varun kumar
Hi All, I want to remove nodes from my cluster *gracefully*. I added the following lines to my hdfs-site.xml dfs.hosts.exclude /opt/hadoop/conf/exclude In exclude file i have mentioned the hostname of the datanode. Then I run 'hadoop dfsadmin -refreshNodes' On the web interface the