I think you need to apply the patch for the Avatar Node. Not sure the path number but you can figure out from Dhruba's post.
some other HA solution: - BackupNode (in 0.21) - Cluster of NameNodes, with some voting mechanism On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 8:30 PM, xixi <ccxix...@live.com> wrote: > > > Hi all > I Googled 'namenode high available', and found the AvatarNode, but I cannot > found the setup and configuration to get start with AvatarNode. > Can anybody help? > > And are there any other approaches which will make the NameNode > highly-available? > > Thanks > >