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Raghu Angadi commented on HADOOP-1242: -------------------------------------- from the Jira description : bq. I ran my test cluster on 0.13 and then tried to run it under 0.12. When I downgraded, the namenode would not come up and the message said I needed to format the filesystem. I ignored that and tried to restart on 0.13, now the datanode will not come up with: Just for clarification: the patch still does not fix the above case, right? > dfs upgrade/downgrade problems > ------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-1242 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1242 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Bug > Components: dfs > Affects Versions: 0.13.0 > Reporter: Owen O'Malley > Assigned To: Konstantin Shvachko > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 0.13.0 > > Attachments: clean-upgrade.patch, failPreUpgradeVersion.patch > > > I ran my test cluster on 0.13 and then tried to run it under 0.12. When I > downgraded, the namenode would not come up and the message said I needed to > format the filesystem. I ignored that and tried to restart on 0.13, now the > datanode will not come up with: > 2007-04-10 11:25:37,448 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DataNode: > org.apache.hadoop. > dfs.InconsistentFSStateException: Directory /local/owen/hadoop/dfs/d > ata is in an inconsistent state: Old layout block directory > /local/owen/hadoop/dfs/data/data is missing > at > org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DataStorage.isConversionNeeded(DataStorage.java > :170) > at > org.apache.hadoop.dfs.Storage$StorageDirectory.analyzeStorage(Storage > .java:264) > at > org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DataStorage.recoverTransitionRead(DataStorage.j > ava:83) > at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DataNode.startDataNode(DataNode.java:230) > at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DataNode.<init>(DataNode.java:199) > at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DataNode.makeInstance(DataNode.java:1175) > at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DataNode.run(DataNode.java:1119) > at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DataNode.createDataNode(DataNode.java:1140) > at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DataNode.main(DataNode.java:1299) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.