Our Namenode ran out of diskspace and became unresponsive. Tried to bounce DFS and it fails with the following error. How do I recover HDFS even at the cost of loosing a whole bunch on recent edits.
2010-09-28 00:45:00,777 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.metrics.RpcMetrics: Initializing RPC Metrics with hostName=Name Node, port=9000 2010-09-28 00:45:00,783 INFO org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode: Namenode up at: xxxx.yyyy.zzzz.com/aa.bb.ccc.dd: 9000 2010-09-28 00:45:00,786 INFO org.apache.hadoop.metrics.jvm.JvmMetrics: Initializing JVM Metrics with processName=N ameNode, sessionId=null 2010-09-28 00:45:00,790 INFO org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNodeMetrics: Initializing NameNodeMeterics using context ob ject:org.apache.hadoop.metrics.spi.NullContext 2010-09-28 00:45:00,843 INFO org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSNamesystem: fsOwner=xxxxxx,xxxxx 2010-09-28 00:45:00,843 INFO org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSNamesystem: supergroup=supergroup 2010-09-28 00:45:00,843 INFO org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSNamesystem: isPermissionEnabled=false 2010-09-28 00:45:00,850 INFO org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystemMetrics: Initializing FSNamesystemMeterics using co ntext object:org.apache.hadoop.metrics.spi.NullContext 2010-09-28 00:45:00,851 INFO org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSNamesystem: Registered FSNamesystemStatusMBean 2010-09-28 00:45:00,880 INFO org.apache.hadoop.dfs.Storage: Number of files = 682462 2010-09-28 00:45:09,060 INFO org.apache.hadoop.dfs.Storage: Number of files under construction = 4 2010-09-28 00:45:09,132 INFO org.apache.hadoop.dfs.Storage: Image file of size 81850130 loaded in 8 seconds. 2010-09-28 00:45:09,144 INFO org.apache.hadoop.dfs.Storage: Edits file edits of size 15190 edits # 71 loaded in 0 seconds. 2010-09-28 00:45:09,147 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSNamesystem: FSNamesystem initialization failed. java.io.EOFException at java.io.DataInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source) at java.io.DataInputStream.readLong(Unknown Source) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.Block.readFields(Block.java:126) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSEditLog.readBlocks(FSEditLog.java:1127) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSEditLog.loadFSEdits(FSEditLog.java:456) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSImage.loadFSEdits(FSImage.java:849) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSImage.loadFSImage(FSImage.java:675) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSImage.recoverTransitionRead(FSImage.java:289) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSDirectory.loadFSImage(FSDirectory.java:80) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.initialize(FSNamesystem.java:294) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.<init>(FSNamesystem.java:273) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:148) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:193) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:179) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:830) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:839) 2010-09-28 00:45:09,148 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server: Stopping server on 9000 2010-09-28 00:45:09,149 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode: java.io.EOFException at java.io.DataInputStream.readFully(Unknown Source) at java.io.DataInputStream.readLong(Unknown Source) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.Block.readFields(Block.java:126) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSEditLog.readBlocks(FSEditLog.java:1127) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSEditLog.loadFSEdits(FSEditLog.java:456) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSImage.loadFSEdits(FSImage.java:849) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSImage.loadFSImage(FSImage.java:675) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSImage.recoverTransitionRead(FSImage.java:289) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSDirectory.loadFSImage(FSDirectory.java:80) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.initialize(FSNamesystem.java:294) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.<init>(FSNamesystem.java:273) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:148) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:193) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:179) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:830) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:839) 2010-09-28 00:45:09,149 INFO org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode: SHUTDOWN_MSG: -Ayon