I think here secondary namenode does not have capabilities to push newly created fsimage to primary namenode. checkpoint node has that capability. in case of secondary namnode its primary namenode's responsibilites to pull that updated fsimage while start up. ... View more

Yes, you are correct   [root@host1 20376-hdfs-NAMENODE]# hdfs haadmin -getServiceState namenode1 standby [root@host1 20376-hdfs-NAMENODE]# hdfs haadmin -getServiceState namenode2 active [root@host2 20376-hdfs-NAMENODE]# ... View more