Re: dynamically adding slaves to hadoop cluster

[Owen O'Malley]

On Mar 9, 2008, at 9:54 AM, tjohn wrote:

Hi all, i m new to hadoop and i wanted to know how to dynamically  
add a slave
to my cluster, obviously while it' s running.

If you start a new data node (and/or task tracker), they will join  
the cluster of the configured name node / job tracker. After adding  
datanodes, you should rebalance your hdfs data.

-- Owen