The data node question has been answered, but one tangental comment - you say you are using the Secondary Name Node service. You almost certainly do not want to be using that. You do not get any HA with the SNN. What you probably want is the Standby Namenode. In Cloudera Manager you can enable HA from the HDFS service actions and that will replace your Secondary Name Node with a Standby Name Node.
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