You need to restart the namenode for the new setting to take effect. The namenode will be unavailable for a while during the restart.
-Joey On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Jain, Prem <premanshu.j...@netapp.com> wrote: > Team, > > I would like to add additional directory under “dfs.name.dir” property in > order to have one more copy of namenode metadata. My HDFS is already > running and in production. > > Is there a clean way to do this ? > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > -- Joseph Echeverria Cloudera, Inc. 443.305.9434
