NullPointerException in offLineImageViewer

2014-03-19 Thread Chetan Agrawal
I want to access and study the hadoop cluster's metadata which is stored in fsimage file on namenode machine. i came to know that offLineImageViewer is used to do so. But when i am trying doing it i am getting an exception. /usr/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1# bin/hadoop oiv -i fsimage -o fsimage.txt

NullpointerException in OffLineImageViewer

2014-03-19 Thread Chetan Agrawal
I want to access and study the hadoop cluster's metadata which is stored in fsimage file on namenode machine. i came to know that offLineImageViewer is used to do so. But when i am trying doing it i am getting an exception. /usr/hadoop/hadoop-1.2.1# bin/hadoop oiv -i fsimage -o fsimage.txt

memory management module of Namenode

2014-01-28 Thread Chetan Agrawal
I read that the namenode keeps all the metadata record in main memory right for fast access. I want to study the code where the namenode is instructed to do so i.e. to keep metadata record in main memory. where can i find the source code file for this namenode memory management? i am using

RE: Datanode Shutting down automatically

2014-01-25 Thread Chetan Agrawal
thanx a lot...is working fine now From: ha...@cloudera.com Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 12:15:08 +0530 Subject: Re: Datanode Shutting down automatically To: user@hadoop.apache.org You reformatted your NameNode at some point, but likely failed to also clear out the DN data directories, which