after adding the journal node service stop the services verify for the presence or Please create the folder till the value it configured till the path mentioned under the config -dfs.journalnode.edits.dir run the scp -r command from other journal node for Clusternamenode folder   Ex: scp -r journal2:/data/hadoop/hdfs/journal/clustername chown hdfs:hadoop /data/hadoop/hdfs/journal/clustername Start the Journal node Observe the Sync of transaction range activity in jounral log and after that edits will be patched as usual  ... View more