Hi.

Question - will DataNode ever try to format again the directory after the
initial format?

Common sense says no, so if I erased them once and they ever come back, it
should not impact DataNode in any way?

Thanks again.

2009/9/29 Anthony Urso <[email protected]>

> Those are created by fsck and will come back.  They belong to the
> filesystem and you shouldn't delete them.
>
> Instead, create subdirectories on those mount points and use them as
> DFS directories.  E.g. create and use /mnt/dfs instead of /mnt
>
> Cheers,
> Anthony
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Stas Oskin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm trying to spread DataNode files over separate block devices, but
> these
> > have lost+found directories created.
> >
> > DataNode initialization fails because it can't erase them (probably
> because
> > it running under hadoop account).
> >
> > Any idea how to solve this? I can erase them manually, but what if they
> > appear again in future?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
>

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