On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Todd Lipcon <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: > I've filed a JIRA and patch for this issue: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1958
And it's now committed. -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 > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
