Since you already formatted NN, why do you think dataloss if you remove storage directories of DNs here? Since you formatted the NN, new namespaceID will be generated. When DNs registering to it, they will have still old NamespaceID, so, it will say incompatible namespaceIDs. So, here currently the solution is to remove the storage directories of all DNs.
Regards, Uma ________________________________________ From: gdan2000 [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 2:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Incompatible namespaceIDs after formatting namenode Hi We just started implemented hadoop on our system for the first time(Cloudera CDH3u2 ) After reformatting a namenode for a few times, DataNode is not coming up with error "Incompatible namespaceIDs" I found a note on this http://pages.cs.brandeis.edu/~cs147a/lab/hadoop-troubleshooting/ but I'm really not sure about removing data node directories. How is it possible that data will not be lost? I have to do it on all datanodes... Please explain me how all this reformat tasks preserves user's data ? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Incompatible-namespaceIDs-after-formatting-namenode-tp33142065p33142065.html Sent from the Hadoop core-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
