Rebalance is being worked on. The design document can be found at http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1652. It is likely to be part of the next release of Hadoop.
Thanks, dhruba -----Original Message----- From: Chris Fellows [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 8:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: multiple file -put in dfs Thanks for the response. I ended up using the distcp which I felt worked well and was quite straight forward. but as the source machine was part of the cluster, I did end up with fairly high imbalance. Ted noted several ways of balancing the cluster using replication. Are there any plans of introducing automatic balancing, so that in idle time, the namenode can balance out its nodes?
