Be aware that this also only works if the namenode/Job tracker does not need to be upgraded. If it does then you have to have downtime to restart them.
We are working on getting rolling upgrades in the code but there are a number of large prerequisites to really make it work, so it is not likely to happen for a few more releases. --Bobby On 7/8/11 7:00 AM, "Joey Echeverria" <j...@cloudera.com> wrote: It depends on the versions. Some minor updates are compatible with each other and you can do rolling restarts. If you're using less than 50% of your total storage, you could decommission half of your cluster, upgrade that half, distcp to the new cluster and then upgrade the other half. -Joey On Jul 8, 2011, at 1:51, Sudharsan Sampath <sudha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Is it possible to upgrade to a newer version of hadoop without bringing the > cluster down? To my understanding its not. But just wondering.. > > Thanks > Sudharsan S
