Could it be the /tmp/hbase-<userID> directory that is playing the culprit. just a wild guess though.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <[email protected]>wrote: > Unless HBase was running when you wiped that out (and even then), I > don't see how this could happen. Could you match those blocks to the > files using fsck and figure when the files were created and if they > were part of the old install? > > Thx, > > J-D > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Jonathan Bender > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, I'm having a strange error which I can't exactly figure out. > > > > After wiping my /hbase HDFS directory to do a fresh install, I am getting > > "MISSING BLOCKS" in this /hbase directory, which cause HDFS to start up > in > > safe mode. This doesn't happen until I start my region servers, so I > have a > > feeling there is some kind of corrupted metadata that is being loaded > from > > these region servers. > > > > Is there a graceful way to wipe the HBase directory clean? Any local > > directories on the region servers /master / ZK server that I should be > > wiping as well? > > > > Cheers, > > Jon > > >
