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Rajiv Chittajallu commented on HADOOP-5643: ------------------------------------------- >While testing the patch, we found that manually changing the excludes file >(maintained by the jobtracker) results in checksum error. For the name NameNode, this is allowed. JT should do the same. > Ability to blacklist tasktracker > -------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-5643 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5643 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: New Feature > Affects Versions: 0.20.0 > Reporter: Rajiv Chittajallu > Assignee: Amar Kamat > Attachments: HADOOP-5643-v3.4.patch, HADOOP-5643-v4.0.patch > > > Its not always possible to shutdown the tasktracker to stop scheduling tasks > on the node. (eg you can't login to the node but the TT is up). > This can be via > * mapred.exclude and should be refreshed with out restarting the tasktracker > * hadoop job -fail-tracker <tracker id> -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.