Yes format should check "in_use.lock". What is your environment? Does it support locks on you local file system?
Thanks, --Konst On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:38 AM, Stanley Shi <s...@gopivotal.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have encountered this case in my environment: > > 1. NameNode is actively running without any problem; > > 2. someone accidentally formatted the namenode (even if there's one > instance running); > > 3. The running namenode continues to write edit log starting from some big > txid; > > > This caused the namenode now in an in-consistent state: > > It has edit log and fsimage but if you restart the namenode, it will say > the namenode cannot be started because it expect some txid 1 ; > > I think this is a bug. At least when formating the namenode, it should > check if there's an namenode instance already running. > > Regards, > *Stanley Shi,* >
