If the files are gone forever you should run: hadoop fsck -delete /
To acknowledge they have moved on from existence. Otherwise things that attempt to read this files will, to put it in a technical way, BARF. On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Juan Pino <juancitomiguel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thank you for your reply. I ran that command before and it works fine but > hadoop fs -ls diplays the list of files in the user's directory but then > hangs for quite a while (~ 10 minutes) before > handing the command line prompt back, then if I rerun the same command > there is no problem. That is why I would like to be able to leave safe mode > automatically (at least I think it's related). > Also, in the hdfs web page, clicking on the Live Nodes or Dead Nodes links > hangs forever but I am able to browse the file > system without any problem with the browser. > There is no error in the logs. > Please let me know what sort of details I can provide to help resolve this > issue. > > Best, > > Juan > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Edward Capriolo <edlinuxg...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> If the datanode is not coming back you have to explicitly tell hadoop >> to leave safemode. >> >> http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.17.2/hdfs_user_guide.html#Safemode >> >> hadoop dfsadmin -safemode leave >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Juan Pino <juancitomiguel...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I can't get HDFS to leave safe mode automatically. Here is what I did: >> > >> > -- there was a dead node >> > -- I stopped dfs >> > -- I restarted dfs >> > -- Safe mode wouldn't leave automatically >> > >> > I am using hadoop-1.0.2 >> > >> > Here are the logs: >> > >> > end of hadoop-hadoop-namenode.log (attached): >> > >> > 2012-07-13 13:22:29,372 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.StateChange: STATE* >> Safe >> > mode ON. >> > The ratio of reported blocks 0.9795 has not reached the threshold 0.9990. >> > Safe mode will be turned off automatically. >> > 2012-07-13 13:22:29,375 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.StateChange: STATE* >> Safe >> > mode extension entered. >> > The ratio of reported blocks 0.9990 has reached the threshold 0.9990. >> Safe >> > mode will be turned off automatically in 29 seconds. >> > 2012-07-13 13:22:29,375 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.StateChange: *BLOCK* >> > NameSystem.processReport: from , blocks: 3128, processing time: 4 msecs >> > 2012-07-13 13:31:29,201 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.StateChange: BLOCK* >> > NameSystem.processReport: discarded non-initial block report from because >> > namenode still in startup phase >> > >> > Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> > >> > Best, >> > >> > Juan >> > >>
