I've filed a JIRA and patch for this issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1958
Thanks for the feedback, all. -Todd On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Jonathan Disher <jdis...@parad.net> wrote: > 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 -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
