This can happen when the original owner of the file is still alive, in your case is the region server it's recovering (10.103.5.6) is still running? If it GCed hard, then it probably stayed "alive" for a while but it should shut down when it wakes up.
J-D On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Jack Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010-10-21 10:08:14,268 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.FSUtils: > Waited 2014334ms for lease recovery on > hdfs://namenode-rd.imageshack.us:9000/hbase/.logs/mtae6.prod.imageshack.com,60020,1287624295377/10.103.5.6%3A60020.1287672366636:org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.AlreadyBeingCreatedException: > failed to create file > /hbase/.logs/mtae6.prod.imageshack.com,60020,1287624295377/10.103.5.6%3A60020.1287672366636 > for DFSClient_hb_m_10.101.7.1:60000_1287616820725 on client > 10.101.7.1, because this file is already being created by NN_Recovery > on 10.103.5.6 > > > Seems to be like a new problem we discovered - any ideas what this means? > > -Jack >
