Decommission a DataNode from a running Hadoop Cluster

2015-11-24 Thread Oussama Jilal
Hello, I need to decommission a datanode from a running cluster, my probleme is that the "dfs.hosts.exclude" property was not set on either the "hdfs-site.xml" nor the "core-site.xml", and since adding it requires an HDFS restart (which I can't do). How do I decommission that datanode ?

Re: Decommission a DataNode from a running Hadoop Cluster

2015-11-24 Thread Oussama Jilal
Hello, Seems like I was updating the "hdfs-site.xml" on the datanode I want to decommission instead of the namenode. I added the exclude property in the "hdfs-site.xml" on the namenode, executed the refresh command and it worked without restarting the cluster... it is now decommissioning. Please