RE: Stopping datanodes dynamically.

2011-01-31 Thread Segel, Mike
Well he didn't say he wanted to decommission the node, just stop it independently of the name node. ;-) -Original Message- From: Koji Noguchi [mailto:knogu...@yahoo-inc.com] Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 11:16 AM To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Stopping data

Re: Stopping datanodes dynamically.

2011-01-31 Thread Koji Noguchi
If you want to decommission a datanode, http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.0/hdfs_user_guide.html#DFSAdmin+Command -refreshNodes briefly explains how it works. Koji On 1/31/11 4:35 AM, "Segel, Mike" wrote: James, Remove the node without stopping what? If you mean you want to remove

RE: Stopping datanodes dynamically.

2011-01-31 Thread Segel, Mike
James, Remove the node without stopping what? If you mean you want to remove the data node without stopping the master, you have a couple of ways... First, if you're running Cloudera's CDH3b3 release you have /etc/init.d scripts where you can issue a stop command. (Stopping the datanode and th