Re: Is it necessary to run secondary namenode when starting HDFS?

2012-12-17 Thread Ivan Ryndin
in production, to reduce the amount of downtime if you need to replace or restart your namenode. If that isn't a concern for you then you don't need it. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Ivan Ryndin iryn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, is it necessary to run secondary namenode when starting

Re: Is it necessary to run secondary namenode when starting HDFS?

2012-12-17 Thread Michael Segel
don't need it. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Ivan Ryndin iryn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, is it necessary to run secondary namenode when starting HDFS? I am dealing with Hadoop 1.1.1. Looking at script $HADOOP_HOME/bin/start_dfs.sh There are next lines in this file: # start dfs

Re: Is it necessary to run secondary namenode when starting HDFS?

2012-12-17 Thread Mohammad Tariq
HDFS? I would say it's not necessary. I did skip it when I first played with Hadoop. From: Ivan Ryndin iryn...@gmail.com Reply-To: user@hadoop.apache.org Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 21:04:49 +0400 To: user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Is it necessary to run secondary namenode when starting HDFS