https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Datanode-Failures-DataXceiver-error-processing-WRITE-BLOCK/m-p/173852#M136115 <P>Yes, the datanodes crashed <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/126/aagarwal.html" nodeid="126">@Arpit Agarwal</A>. <EM>hdfs dfsadmin -report</EM> command is more accurate in reporting the datanode failure.</P><BR /><IMG src="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/6446iCA28B18ADF38ADE3/image-size/large?v=1.0&amp;px=999" border="0" alt="ambari-dn-display.png" title="ambari-dn-display.png" /> Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:54:06 GMT joshua_adeleke 2017-03-28T13:54:06Z