You have to do this on the node where resource manager runs. on other nodes, this directory would be empty only. so this should be good. ... View more

I echo on the same question. Why would we need to copy all the contents from the running journal nodes to the new nodes. even though when the journal service on the new nodes is started and entry marked in the configuration of the namenode, it should automatically get sync'ed up all the edits.   WHY do we copy the old edits to new journal servers?   ... View more