Re: journal node shared edits directory should be present on HDFS or NAS or anything else?

2015-02-12 Thread Chandrashekhar Kotekar
Hi Brahma Reddy, Thanks for the quick answer. It explains a lot but I have one more question. Maybe it is a stupid question but, required shared storage means active name node will write to its local disk? Do I need to configure or use any shared storage like NAS or SAN array or S3 storage for

RE: journal node shared edits directory should be present on HDFS or NAS or anything else?

2015-02-12 Thread Brahma Reddy Battula
Hello Chandrashekhar, Active namenode will write to require shared storage and will not write to HDFS.. Please check following docs for reference When Sharedstorage is Journalnode: property namedfs.namenode.shared.edits.dir/name

RE: journal node shared edits directory should be present on HDFS or NAS or anything else?

2015-02-12 Thread Brahma Reddy Battula
Hello Chandrashekhar, Yes, you need to configure the shared storage(Active namenode writes to shared storage and Standby NN will read). Please check following mail for configuration..Shared storage can be Journalnode(which is one process and come along with hadoop package, check following