Problem with multiple output dirs

[Oded Rosen <od...@legolas-media.com>]

Hi,

We get errors when we use MultipleTextOutputFormat to split reduce results
into different dirs on the hdfs.
The errors will occur only when there are more then ~10 different output
dirs. We get no error when using fewer output dirs.
I imagine this may be solvable by changing a configuration parameter.

Notice this class (MultipleTextOutputFormat) is now deprecated (our servers
run hadoop-0.20 but our code is still in 0.18 classes).
Will we get the same errors if we work with 0.20 syntax?

Here's what we get:

org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException: java.io.IOException: File
/user/hadoop/etl_2010-03-13_03-12-03/_temporary/_attempt_201003050309_0154_r_000000_0/20100111/part-00000
could only be replicated to 0 nodes, instead of 1
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem.getAdditionalBlock(FSNamesystem.java:1282)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.NameNode.addBlock(NameNode.java:469)
	at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor24.invoke(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:508)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:966)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler$1.run(Server.java:962)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:960)

	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:740)
	at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Invoker.invoke(RPC.java:220)
	at $Proxy1.addBlock(Unknown Source)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
	at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invokeMethod(RetryInvocationHandler.java:82)
	at org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invoke(RetryInvocationHandler.java:59)
	at $Proxy1.addBlock(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.locateFollowingBlock(DFSClient.java:2932)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.nextBlockOutputStream(DFSClient.java:2807)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.access$2000(DFSClient.java:2087)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.run(DFSClient.java:2274)


And also:

java.io.IOException: All datanodes 10.21.204.136:50010 are bad. Aborting...
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.processDatanodeError(DFSClient.java:2542)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.access$1600(DFSClient.java:2087)
	at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream$DataStreamer.run(DFSClient.java:2251)



Thanks,
-- 
Oded