Sailesh Patel created HDFS-14448:
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             Summary: Provide an appropriate Message when Secondary Namenode is 
not  bootstrap initialized
                 Key: HDFS-14448
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-14448
             Project: Hadoop HDFS
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: hdfs
    Affects Versions: 2.6.0
            Reporter: Sailesh Patel


After  HDFS is running for some time and then it is enabled for HDFS-HA, if the 
secondary bootstrap fails ( say because active NN was down),  and then it is 
attempted to be started, the message in secondary NN says "NameNode is not 
formatted."

e.g.
2019-04-16 19:43:27,951 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode: 
Failed to start namenode. java.io.IOException: NameNode is not formatted. at 
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSImage.recoverTransitionRead(FSImage.java:232)
 at 
org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.loadFSImage(FSNamesystem.java:1144)
 

Can this message be improved to  say:

 "Secondary NameNode is not initialized. Please Bootstrap Secondary Namenode"

or

 "NameNode is not formatted/Secondary Namenode not Bootstrapped(Initialized)"

This is to avoid customers mistakenly formatting namenode and there by losing 
data.

 

 



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