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Allen Wittenauer commented on HDFS-12420:
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Don't we already have the y/n check when data exists? Why do we need another?
> Disable Namenode format when data already exists
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> Key: HDFS-12420
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-12420
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ajay Kumar
> Assignee: Ajay Kumar
> Attachments: HDFS-12420.01.patch, HDFS-12420.02.patch
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> Disable NameNode format to avoid accidental formatting of Namenode in
> production cluster. If someone really wants to delete the complete fsImage,
> they can first delete the metadata dir and then run {code} hdfs namenode
> -format{code} manually.
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