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Eli Collins commented on HDFS-528:
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Why not just add dfsadmin command (eg -waitwritable) that returns when the file
system is writable? Seems like # datanodes is just a proxy for what the user
really wants to know.
> Add ability for safemode to wait for a minimum number of live datanodes
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> Key: HDFS-528
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-528
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: scripts
> Affects Versions: 0.22.0
> Reporter: Todd Lipcon
> Assignee: Todd Lipcon
> Attachments: hdfs-528-v2.txt, hdfs-528-v3.txt, hdfs-528.txt,
> hdfs-528.txt
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> When starting up a fresh cluster programatically, users often want to wait
> until DFS is "writable" before continuing in a script. "dfsadmin -safemode
> wait" doesn't quite work for this on a completely fresh cluster, since when
> there are 0 blocks on the system, 100% of them are accounted for before any
> DNs have reported.
> This JIRA is to add a command which waits until a certain number of DNs have
> reported as alive to the NN.
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