Your nodes need to be in include and exclude file in the same time
Do you use both files? On 6/8/12 11:46 AM, "Chris Grier" <gr...@imchris.org> wrote: >Hello, > >I'm in the trying to figure out how to decommission data nodes. Here's >what >I do: > >In hdfs-site.xml I have: > ><property> > <name>dfs.hosts.exclude</name> > <value>/opt/hadoop/hadoop-1.0.0/conf/exclude</value> ></property> > >Add to exclude file: > >host1 >host2 > >Then I run 'hadoop dfsadmin -refreshNodes'. On the web interface the two >nodes now appear in both the 'Live Nodes' and 'Dead Nodes' (but there's >nothing in the Decommissioning Nodes list). If I look at the datanode logs >running on host1 or host2, I still see blocks being copied in and it does >not appear that any additional replication was happening. > >What am I missing during the decommission process? > >-Chris
