On May 18, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Aaron Eng wrote: > Case in point, I noted a while ago that when you run the namenode -format > command, it only accepts a capital Y (or lower case, can't remember), and it > fails silently if you give the wrong case. I didn't particularly care enough > to fix it, having already learned my lesson. You'll find lots of these rough > edges through hadoop, it is not a user firendly, out-of-the-box > enterprise-ready product.
It's capital. You know, when I built my Archive cluster, I fought this for two hours, figuring something was hosed in my configuration, before I finally figured it out. It's kind of an embarrassing bug, first-semester Java students know how to work around it (believe me, I've only taken one semester of Java!) -j
