Stephen Chu created HDFS-3482: --------------------------------- Summary: hdfs balancer throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if option is specified without arguments Key: HDFS-3482 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-3482 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Components: balancer Affects Versions: 2.0.0-alpha Reporter: Stephen Chu Priority: Minor
When running the hdfs balancer with an option but no argument, we run into an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException. It's preferable to print the usage. {noformat} bash-3.2$ hdfs balancer -threshold Usage: java Balancer [-policy <policy>] the balancing policy: datanode or blockpool [-threshold <threshold>] Percentage of disk capacity Balancing took 261.0 milliseconds 12/05/31 09:38:46 ERROR balancer.Balancer: Exiting balancer due an exception java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1 at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer$Cli.parse(Balancer.java:1505) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer$Cli.run(Balancer.java:1482) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer.main(Balancer.java:1555) bash-3.2$ hdfs balancer -policy Usage: java Balancer [-policy <policy>] the balancing policy: datanode or blockpool [-threshold <threshold>] Percentage of disk capacity Balancing took 261.0 milliseconds 12/05/31 09:39:03 ERROR balancer.Balancer: Exiting balancer due an exception java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1 at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer$Cli.parse(Balancer.java:1520) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer$Cli.run(Balancer.java:1482) at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:70) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.balancer.Balancer.main(Balancer.java:1555) {noformat} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira