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Konstantin Shvachko commented on HADOOP-4995:
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{{namenode -checkimage}} startup option would be good to have. Glad we
clarified it.
> Offline Namenode fsImage verification
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> Key: HADOOP-4995
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4995
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: dfs
> Reporter: Brian Bockelman
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> Currently, there is no way to verify that a copy of the fsImage is not
> corrupt. I propose that we should have an offline tool that loads the
> fsImage into memory to see if it is usable. This will allow us to automate
> backup testing to some extent.
> One can start a namenode process on the fsImage to see if it can be loaded,
> but this is not easy to automate.
> To use HDFS in production, it is greatly desired to have both checkpoints -
> and have some idea that the checkpoints are valid! No one wants to see the
> day where they reload from backup only to find that the fsImage in the backup
> wasn't usable.
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