Re: Issue in Rollback (after rolling upgrade) from hadoop 2.7.2 to 2.5.2

2016-10-14 Thread Kihwal Lee
Cc: user <u...@hadoop.apache.org>; hdfs-dev <hdfs-dev@hadoop.apache.org> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2016 3:29 PM Subject: Re: Issue in Rollback (after rolling upgrade) from hadoop 2.7.2 to 2.5.2 Hi Dinesh! This is obviously a very hazardous situation you are in (if your data is important

Re: Issue in Rollback (after rolling upgrade) from hadoop 2.7.2 to 2.5.2

2016-10-13 Thread Ravi Prakash
Hi Dinesh! This is obviously a very hazardous situation you are in (if your data is important), so I'd suggest moving carefully. Make as many backups of as many things you can. The usual mechanism that Hadoop uses when upgrading is to rename directories of the old format and keep them around