RE: HDFS Installation / Configuration

2012-07-18 Thread Yuvrajsinh Chauhan
Dear Tariq, My current setup is as below: Node-1 Node-2 / 40GB/ 40GB /opt120GB /opt120GB /u0195GB/u0195GB /dev/shm19GB/dev/shm19GB Common Storage /DATA1 100GB /DATA2 100GB

Re: HDFS Installation / Configuration

2012-07-18 Thread Mohammad Tariq
Hi Yuvraj, Once the disk is mounted we just need to give the names of all the directories as a comma separated value for 'dfs.data.dir' property, and the data will be sent to all these places. And we don't have to worry as far as writing the data to a new storage is concerned. As soon as add

RE: HDFS Installation / Configuration

2012-07-18 Thread Yuvrajsinh Chauhan
Ok that's fine. Now can I create files directly on new partition ? - My requirement is, If I write file from one node, It should be visible to other node which running under cluster at the same time. Also If I add new partition, shall I need to restart DFS and mapred ? Regards, Yuvrajsinh Chauh

Namenode and Jobtracker dont start

2012-07-18 Thread Björn-Elmar Macek
Hi, i have lately been running into problems since i started running hadoop on a cluster: The setup is the following: 1 Computer is NameNode and Jobtracker 1 Computer is SecondaryNameNode 2 Computers are TaskTracker and DataNode I ran into problems with running the wordcount example: NameNode

Bulk Import & Data Locality

2012-07-18 Thread Alex Baranau
Hello, As far as I understand Bulk Import functionality will not take into account the Data Locality question. MR job will create number of reducer tasks same as regions to write into, but it will not "advice" on which nodes to run these tasks. In that case Reducer task which writes HFiles of some

Re: Namenode and Jobtracker dont start

2012-07-18 Thread Suresh Srinivas
Can you share information on the java version that you are using. - Is it as obvious as some previous processes still running and new processes cannot bind to the port? - Another pointer - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8360913/weird-java-net-socketexception-permission-denied-connect-error-when

Fw: Lowering HDFS socket timeouts

2012-07-18 Thread Bryan Beaudreault
Cross posting this to the hdfs-user group. See below for the context, but basically I'm wondering if it is safe to lower the dfs.socket.timeout to something like 5-10 seconds in my hbase-site.xml. I'm thinking this would only affect the hdfs client calls that come from HBase, so it wouldn't af

Fwd: Bulk Import & Data Locality

2012-07-18 Thread Alex Baranau
Thank you a lot for the replies. To me it is clear when data locality gets broken though (and it is not only the failure of the RS, there are other cases). I was hoping more for suggestions around this particular use-case: assuming that nodes/RSs are stable, how to make sure to achieve the data lo