2010/1/19 prasenjit mukherjee <[email protected]>: > I run "hadoop fs -rmr .." immediately after start-all.sh Does the > namenode always start in safemode and after sometime switches to > normal mode ? If that is the problem then your suggestion of waiting > might work. Lemme check.
This is the point. Namenode will enter safemode on starting to gather metadata information of files, and then switch to normal mode. The time spent in safemode depends one the data scale in your HDFS. > > -Thanks for the pointer. > Prasen > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Amogh Vasekar <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> When NN is in safe mode, you get a read-only view of the hadoop file system. >> ( since NN is reconstructing its image of FS ) >> Use "hadoop dfsadmin -safemode get" to check if in safe mode. >> "hadoop dfsadmin -safemode leave" to leave safe mode forcefully. Or use >> "hadoop dfsadmin -safemode wait" to block till NN leaves by itself. >> >> Amogh >> >> >> On 1/19/10 10:31 AM, "prasenjit mukherjee" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hmmm. I am actually running it from a batch file. Is "hadoop fs -rmr" >> not that stable compared to pig's rm OR hadoop's FileSystem ? >> >> Let me try your suggestion by writing a cleanup script in pig. >> >> -Thanks, >> Prasen >> >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Rekha Joshi <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Can you try with dfs/ without quotes?If using pig to run jobs you can use >>> rmf within your script(again w/o quotes) to force remove and avoid error if >>> file/dir not present.Or if doing this inside hadoop job, you can use >>> FileSystem/FileStatus to delete directories.HTH. >>> Cheers, >>> /R >>> >>> On 1/19/10 10:15 AM, "prasenjit mukherjee" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> "hadoop fs -rmr /op" >>> >>> That command always fails. I am trying to run sequential hadoop jobs. >>> After the first run all subsequent runs fail while cleaning up ( aka >>> removing the hadoop dir created by previous run ). What can I do to >>> avoid this ? >>> >>> here is my hadoop version : >>> # hadoop version >>> Hadoop 0.20.0 >>> Subversion https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/core/branches/branch-0.20 >>> -r 763504 >>> Compiled by ndaley on Thu Apr 9 05:18:40 UTC 2009 >>> >>> Any help is greatly appreciated. >>> >>> -Prasen >>> >>> >> >> > -- [email protected]
