I think the bug might be related to this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-686
and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1002 On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Jakob Homan <[email protected]> wrote: > Please move discussions of CDH issues to Cloudera's lists. Thanks. > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Bjoern Schiessle >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> 1. I have set up a second dfs.name.dir which is stored at another >>> computer (mounted by sshfs) >>> >> >> I would strongly discourage the use of sshfs for the name dir. For one, it's >> slow, and for two, I've sen it have some really weird semantics where it's >> doing write-back caching. >> >> Just take a look at its manpage and you should get scared about using it for >> a critical mount point like this. >> >> A soft interruptable NFS mount is a much safer bet. >> >> -Todd >> -- >> Todd Lipcon >> Software Engineer, Cloudera >> >
