What happens if I stop the datanode, miss the 10 min 30 seconds deadline, and restart the datanode say 30 minutes later? Will Hadoop re-use the data on this datanode, balancing it with HDFS? What happens to those blocks that correspond to file that have been updated meanwhile?
Mark On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Stephen Fritz <[email protected]>wrote: > HDFS will not start re-replicating blocks from a dead DN for 10 minutes 30 > seconds by default. > > Right now there isn't a good way to replace a disk out from under a > running datanode, so the best way is: > - Stop the DN > - Replace the disk > - Restart the DN > > > > > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Mark Kerzner <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> can I remove one hard drive from a slave but tell Hadoop not to replicate >> missing blocks for a few minutes, because I will return it back? Or will >> this not work at all, and will Hadoop continue replicating, since I removed >> blocks, even for a short time? >> >> Thank you. Sincerely, >> Mark >> > >
