Hi Rita, What kind of client you have?? Please be sure that there is no job running and especially no data is copying while you do the restart. Also are you restarting by using stop-dfs.sh and start-dfs.sh?
Regards, Abhishek On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Rita <rmorgan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Running Hadoop 0.22 and I need to restart the namenode so my new rack > configuration will be set into place. I am thinking of doing a quick stop > and start of the namenode but what will happen to the current clients? Can > they tolerate a 30 second hiccup by retrying? > > -- > --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.-- >
