[YARN-2131] Add a way to format the RMStateStore

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.6.0
• Component/s: resourcemanager
• Target Version/s: 2.6.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Robert Kanter
• Reporter: Karthik Kambatla
• Created: 07/Jun/14 00:38
• Updated: 01/Dec/14 03:11
• Resolved: 22/Jul/14 18:12

Description

There are cases when we don't want to recover past applications, but recover applications going forward. To do this, one has to clear the store. Today, there is no easy way to do this and users should understand how each store works.

Issue Links

• duplicates: MAPREDUCE-803 Provide a command line option to clean up jobtracker system directory
• is depended upon by: YARN-2268 Disallow formatting the RMStateStore when there is an RM running
• is duplicated by: YARN-1585 Provide a way to format the RMStateStore