You are correct. That is what I was confused about and it made sense after I researched the purpose of secondary namenode.
> On Nov 29, 2014, at 3:44 PM, Roman Shaposhnik <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Leidle, Rob <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thank you for the reply. I would think that is how it would work. However, >> isn¹t that script starting the secondary-namenode service when ha is >> ³disabled²? That¹s the behavior I am seeing. I have no configured for HA >> yet secondary namenode is being configured and started by the puppet >> scripts. > > I think you're being confused by the terminology here. Seconadary name > node is a very old piece of HDFS and it has little to do with HA. When HA > was implemented in HDFS a notion of a stand-by namemode was introduced. > With that a need for a secondary namenode disappeared. > > Thanks, > Roman.
