Unless HBase was running when you wiped that out (and even then), I don't see how this could happen. Could you match those blocks to the files using fsck and figure when the files were created and if they were part of the old install?
Thx, J-D On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Jonathan Bender <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, I'm having a strange error which I can't exactly figure out. > > After wiping my /hbase HDFS directory to do a fresh install, I am getting > "MISSING BLOCKS" in this /hbase directory, which cause HDFS to start up in > safe mode. This doesn't happen until I start my region servers, so I have a > feeling there is some kind of corrupted metadata that is being loaded from > these region servers. > > Is there a graceful way to wipe the HBase directory clean? Any local > directories on the region servers /master / ZK server that I should be > wiping as well? > > Cheers, > Jon >
