Re: Error running randomwriter

[Owen O'Malley]

On Mar 6, 2007, at 1:39 AM, Richard Yang wrote:
org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException: java.io.IOException: failed  
to create
file /user/root/rand-input/part000000 on client localhost.localdomain
because target-length is 0, below MIN_REPLICATION (1)

This means that your cluster doesn't have any datanodes and was  
trying to create a file on hdfs. I've create a bug report on the  
issue: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1068

-- Owen