That's what I thought. But,this was what I see in -report for the excluded nodes.
************** ecommission Status : Normal Configured Capacity: 0 (0 KB) DFS Used: 0 (0 KB) Non DFS Used: 0 (0 KB) DFS Remaining: 0(0 KB) DFS Used%: 100% DFS Remaining%: 0% Last contact: Wed Dec 31 16:00:00 PST 1969 *************** In the UI, the excluded nodes show up in both live and dead nodes. And its been several hours now. The block counts across the nodes is exactly the same. The cluster is not accessed by any clients, its not busy at all. And I have set dfs.balance.bandwidthPerSec = 2000000 in hdfs-site.xml Anyway, I think I am lost here. Am just resorting to killing 2 nodes at a time sorta backwardish strategy. At least I know it works. Thanks Arun -----Original Message----- From: Varene Olivier [mailto:var...@echo.fr] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 7:44 AM To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: decommissioning nodes help Hello, you should see in the Web interface http://yourDatanodeMaster:50070/ the status of your node to Decommissioning when done, it is removed from the list of active nodes With a huge bandwith to perform the sync, the process is very fast so, to answer your other mail, process might be done you can also this the status of your node via CLI # hadoop dfsadmin -report Name : ... Decommission Status : <StatusOfYourNode> ... Hope it helps Arun Ramakrishnan a écrit : > Hi guys > > I am a stuck in my attempt to remove nodes from hdfs. > > I followed the steps in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1125 > > a) add node to dfs.hosts.exclude > > b) dfsadmin -refreshNodes > > c) wait for decom to finish > > d) remove node from both dfs.hosts and dfs.hosts.exclude > > > > But after step a) and b) how do I know if decommission is complete. > > I am in the process of decommissioning 6 nodes and don't want to loose > any blocks ( rep factor is 3 ) with a restart. > > > > I also opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1290 if anyone > is interested. > > > > Thanks > > Arun > > >
