Jorn, Speaking beyond what Chris said: A very bad idea. You'll end up with a corrupted FS if you do that right now: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2305 (Fixed in a future release, however)
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Jorn Argelo - Ephorus <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I was wondering if there are any (technical) issues with running two > secondary namenodes on two separate servers rather than running just > one. Since basically everything falls or stands with a consistent > snapshot of the namenode fsimage I was considering to run two secondary > namenodes for additional resilience. Has this been done before or am I > being too paranoid? Are there any caveats with doing this? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Jorn > > -- Harsh J
