@mike_bronson7 There is a solution which can help. Run the following command on the Standby NameNode: # su hdfs -l -c 'hdfs namenode -recover' Following message can be seen: You have selected Metadata Recovery mode. Thismode is intended to recover lost metadata on a corrupt filesystem. Metadata recovery mode often permanently deletes data from your HDFS filesystem. Please back up your edit log and fsimage before trying this! Are you ready to proceed? (Y/N) (Y or N) To proceed further, select option "yes", the recovery process will read as much of the edit log as possible. When there is an error or an ambiguity, it will prompt how to proceed. There will be further options prompted as Continue, Stop, Quit, and Always. Mostly the data loss ( due to transaction skip/miss ) is possible when using this method. This method is therefore not to be used, if data/transaction losses has to be avoided.
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