do this test. do a copyFromLocal to create a new file in hdfs . check the block 
size of this new file. it should be 128mb if ur changes took effect.

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On Feb 6, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Rita <rmorgan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Bharath,
> So, I have to restart the entire cluster? So, I need to stop the namenode and 
> then run start-dfs.sh ?
> 
> Ayon,
> So, what I did was decommission a node, remove all of its data (rm -rf 
> data.dir) and stopped the hdfs process on it. Then I made the change to 
> conf/hdfs-site.xml on the data node and then I restarted the datanode. I then 
> ran a balancer to take effect and I am still getting 64MB files instead of 
> 128MB. :-/
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Bharath Mundlapudi <bharathw...@yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
> Can you tell us, how are you verifying if its not working?
> 
> Edit 
> conf/hdfs-site.xml    dfs.block.size  
> 
> 
> And restart the cluster. 
> 
> -Bharath
> 
> 
> From: Rita <rmorgan...@gmail.com>
> To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Sunday, February 6, 2011 8:50 AM
> 
> Subject: Re: changing the block size
> 
> Neither one was working. 
> 
> Is there anything I can do? I always have problems like this in hdfs. It 
> seems even experts are guessing at the answers :-/
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Ayon Sinha <ayonsi...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> conf/hdfs-site.xml
>  
> restart dfs. I believe it should be sufficient to restart the namenode only, 
> but others can confirm.
> 
> -Ayon
> 
> From: Rita <rmorgan...@gmail.com>
> To: hdfs-user@hadoop.apache.org
> Sent: Thu, February 3, 2011 4:35:09 AM
> Subject: changing the block size
> 
> Currently I am using the default block size of 64MB. I would like to change 
> it for my cluster to 256 megabytes since I deal with large files (over 2GB).  
> What is the best way to do this? 
> 
> What file do I have to make the change on? Does it have to be applied on the 
> namenode or each individual data nodes?  What has to get restarted, namenode, 
> datanode, or both?
> 
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