[jira] [Created] (HDFS-2964) No notice in any logs if dfs.datanode.du.reserved is greater than available disk space

["Robert J Berger (Created) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

No notice in any logs if dfs.datanode.du.reserved is greater than available disk space
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                 Key: HDFS-2964
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-2964
             Project: Hadoop HDFS
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: data-node, name-node
    Affects Versions: 0.20.2
            Reporter: Robert J Berger
            Priority: Minor


We spent a long time tracking down why a test hdfs cluster seemed to be running fine, but would not allow the mapred system to come up complaining that "could only be replicated to 0 nodes, instead of 1".

There were no namenode or datanode errors in any of the logs. hadoop fsck said everything was good. At first glance dfsadmin -report looked good. It wasn't until I realized that there was 0 Capacity available that we poked around and found https://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/group/scm-users/msg/a4252d6623adbc2d which mentioned that the "reserverd space" might be greater than the disk space available. And we did find that our dfs.datanode.du.reserved was indeed higher than our actual since we were only testing a small cluster.

It seems that there should be some warning or error in the logs that say that.

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