Hi.

I think one needs to run balancer in order to clean out the redundant
blocks.

Can anyone confirm this?

Regards.

2009/4/28 Piotr <[email protected]>

> Hi
>
> What happens when the node rejoins then ?
>
>   - The replication level of several blocks increases ?
>   - The old replicas are removed in favor of new replicas ? (Or the new
>   ones)
>
> regards
> Piotr
>
> 2009/4/27 Stas Oskin <[email protected]>
>
> > Thanks.
> >
> > 2009/4/27 Koji Noguchi <[email protected]>
> >
> > >
> http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/hdfs_design.html#Data+Disk+Fa
> > > ilure%2C+Heartbeats+and+Re-Replication<
> >
> http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/hdfs_design.html#Data+Disk+Fa%0Ailure%2C+Heartbeats+and+Re-Replication
> > >
> > >
> > > hope this helps.
> > >
> > > Koji
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Stas Oskin [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 4:11 AM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Blocks replication in downtime even
> > >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > I have a question:
> > >
> > > If I have N of DataNodes, and one or several of the nodes have become
> > > unavailable, would HDFS re-synchronize the blocks automatically,
> > > according
> > > to replication level set?
> > > And if yes, when? As soon as the offline node was detected, or only on
> > > file
> > > access?
> > >
> > > Regards.
> > >
> >
>

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