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Aman Singh
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Gurmukh Singh is a seasoned technology professional with 14+ years of industry experience in infrastructure design, distributed systems, performance optimization, and networks. He has worked in big data domain for the last 5 years and provides consultancy and training on various technologies. He has worked with companies such as HP, JP Morgan, and Yahoo. He has authored Monitoring Hadoop by Packt Publishing
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Namenode roll edits – offline mode


In this recipe, we will look at how to roll edits in offline mode. What if the Namenode disk is completely full and it is not able to start at all? We cannot use the process described in the precious recipe.

For this, we will use another Namenode, mount the NFS mount there, and perform the process there.

Getting ready

For this recipe, make sure you have completed the recipe on Hadoop cluster setup, Chapter 1, Hadoop Architecture and Deployment, and has one more node to use as just Namenode.

How to do it...

  1. Connect to the master1.cyrus.com master node and switch to user root.

  2. Unmount the NFS share, which is used as a directory to store the metadata as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Again, we are keeping the other mount point /data/namenode1 safe this time and just playing around with /data/namenode2.

  4. Mount the NFS share on the master2.cyrus.com node using the following command:

    # mount –t nfs4 filer.cyrus.com:/nfs /mnt
    
  5. On master2, create a directory owned by...

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Published in: May 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787126732

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Aman Singh

Gurmukh Singh is a seasoned technology professional with 14+ years of industry experience in infrastructure design, distributed systems, performance optimization, and networks. He has worked in big data domain for the last 5 years and provides consultancy and training on various technologies. He has worked with companies such as HP, JP Morgan, and Yahoo. He has authored Monitoring Hadoop by Packt Publishing
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