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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
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