Short answer: no. We're planning to fix that at some point, and as a stopgap you could backup the namenode state (fsimage, edits) every once in a while, limiting the damage, but as for the data that's lost - your only hope is to try and extract it somehow from the dead disk.
Yoram > -----Original Message----- > From: Jagadeesh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 11:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Hadoop Master Node failed > > Hi, > > I have a storage cluster setup with 30 nodes using Hadoop and > it was working > fine without any issues. But the hard drive of the machine > running master > node failed yesterday and in no way I can retrieve data from that. > > I would like to know whether I can retrieve data using the > other 29 nodes > that I have in the cluster. > > Thanks > Jugs > > >
