Hadoop safemode recovery - taking too long!
I have a Hadoop cluster with 18 data nodes. I restarted the name node over two hours ago and the name node is still in safe mode. I have been searching for why this might be taking too long and I cannot find a good answer. The posting here: Hadoop safemode recovery - taking lot of time is relevant but I'm not sure if I want/need to restart the name node after making a change to this setting as that article mentions: <property> <name>dfs.namenode.handler.count</name> <value>3</value> <final>true</final> </property> In any case, this is what I've been getting in 'hadoop-hadoop-namenode-hadoop