You may want to check this JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4885
It won't help you right know but it could allow you next time to avoid restarting. Regards Bertrand On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Brennon Church <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > We have our dfs.name.dir configured to write to two local and one NFS > directories. The NFS server in question had to be restarted a couple days > back and that copy of the namenode data fell behind as a result. As I > understand it, restarting hadoop will take the most recent copy of the > namenode data, in this case one of the two local copies, and write that to > all three locations going forward. So that solves the problem. > > My question is this, is there a way to get the NFS copy of the data back > in sync without having to shut down and restart the namenode? I'd prefer to > not take an outage if I can help it. > > Thanks. > > --Brennon > >
