datanode directory structure mess-up

[David Watzke]

Hi list,

I ran into trouble because I accidentally usedthis tool 
https://github.com/killerwhile/volume-balancerwith Hadoop 2.6.0 (just 
like that page warns you not to -- I used it successfully before and 
didn't think to check that page before using it again) and it messed up 
my datadirs because as I understand it that software now makes invalid 
assumptions about what directory moves can it do. Now the datanode logs 
are filled with these:

WARN org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.datanode.VolumeScanner: I/O error 
while finding block 
BP-680964103-A.B.C.D-1375882473930:blk_5822441067008155275_0 on volume 
/xyz/dfs/dn

What can I do to fix this? I don't know what files/dirs were moved and 
from where but is there a reasonable way out of this? Such as editing 
VERSION file to a previous version when DN is down so that it fixes the 
layout by itself - would that work?

Please note that I've lost the other replica due to a filesystem error 
so I can't just ignore it. This is literally my only option to recover 
some missing blocks.

Thanks,

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David Watzke