[HADOOP-6216] HDFS Web UI displays comments from dfs.exclude file and counts them as dead nodes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.21.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.21.0
• Component/s: util
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Ravi Phulari
• Reporter: Jim Huang
• Created: 14/Jul/08 20:44
• Updated: 24/Aug/10 20:39
• Resolved: 15/Sep/09 22:26

Description

I am putting comments in dfs.exclude file such as:

 # 32 GB memory upgrades

HDFS Web UI counts each word in the commented line as a dead node.

Issue Links

• duplicates: HDFS-314 Comment in dfs.hosts.exclude
• is related to: MAPREDUCE-937 Allow comments in mapred.hosts and mapred.hosts.exclude files