This depends on what your clients are doing with HDFS and how they handle it being unavailable.
-----Original Message----- From: Rita [mailto:rmorgan...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 3:30 AM To: <common-user@hadoop.apache.org> Subject: namenode restart 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.--
