When namenode goes down while checkpointing and if is started again subsequent Checkpointing is always failing --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HDFS-1981 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1981 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: name-node Affects Versions: 0.23.0 Environment: Linux Reporter: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan Fix For: 0.23.0 This scenario is applicable in NN and BNN case. When the namenode goes down after creating the edits.new, on subsequent restart the divertFileStreams will not happen to edits.new as the edits.new file is already present and the size is zero. so on trying to saveCheckPoint an exception occurs 2011-05-23 16:38:57,476 WARN org.mortbay.log: /getimage: java.io.IOException: GetImage failed. java.io.IOException: Namenode has an edit log with timestamp of 2011-05-23 16:38:56 but new checkpoint was created using editlog with timestamp 2011-05-23 16:37:30. Checkpoint Aborted. This is a bug or is that the behaviour. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira