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Colin Patrick McCabe commented on HDFS-4173:
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The NameNode no longer auto-formats edit log directories on the local
filesystem. So I think we should close this as WONTFIX since the original
reason for doing it (consistency with the local edit log directories) no longer
applies.
> If the NameNode has already been formatted, but a QuroumJournal has not,
> auto-format it on startup
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> Key: HDFS-4173
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4173
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: journal-node, namenode
> Affects Versions: 2.0.3-alpha
> Reporter: Colin Patrick McCabe
> Assignee: Colin Patrick McCabe
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: HDFS-4173.001.patch
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> If we have multiple edit log directories, and some of them are formatted, but
> others are not, we format the unformatted ones. However, when we implemented
> QuorumJournalManager, we did not extend this behavior to it. It makes sense
> to do this.
> One use case is if you want to add a QuorumJournalManager URI
> ({{journal://}}) to an existing {{NameNode}}, without reformatting
> everything. There is currently no easy way to do this, since {{namenode
> \-format}} will nuke everything, and there's no other way to format the
> {{JournalNodes}}.
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