add -force option to namenode -format command ---------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-8171 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8171 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Improvement Affects Versions: 0.24.0, 1.0.2 Reporter: Arpit Gupta Assignee: Arpit Gupta Currently the bin/hadoop namenode -format prompts the user for a Y/N to setup the directories in the local file system. We should add a -force option which when present the user is not prompted. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira