Hadoop: ...be replicated to 0 nodes instead of minReplication (=1). There are 1 datanode(s) running and no node(s) are excluded in this operation
<p>I'm getting the following error when attempting to write to HDFS as part of my multi-threaded application</p>

<pre><code>could only be replicated to 0 nodes instead of minReplication (=1).  There are 1 datanode(s) running and no node(s) are excluded in this operation.
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<p>I've tried the top-rated answer here around reformatting but this doesn't work for me: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5293446/hdfs-error-could-only-be-replicated-to-0-nodes-instead-of-1">HDFS error: could only be replicated to 0 nodes, instead of 1</a></p>

<p>What is happening is this:</p>

<ol>
<li>My application consists of 2 threads each one configured with their own Spring Data <code>PartitionTextFileWriter</code></li>
<li>Thread 1 is the first to process data and this can successfully write to HDFS</li>
<li>However, once Thread 2 starts to process data I get this error when it attempts to flush to a file</li>
</ol>

<p>Thread 1 and 2 will not be writing to the same file, although they do share a parent directory at the root of my directory tree.</p>

<p>There are no problems with disk space on my server.</p>

<p>I also see this in my name-node logs, but not sure what it means:</p>

<pre><code>2016-03-15 11:23:12,149 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.blockmanagement.BlockPlacementPolicy: Failed to place enough replicas, still in need of 1 to reach 1 (unavailableStorages=[], storagePolicy=BlockStoragePolicy{HOT:7, storageTypes=[DISK], creationFallbacks=[], replicationFallbacks=[ARCHIVE]}, newBlock=true) For more information, please enable DEBUG log level on org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.blockmanagement.BlockPlacementPolicy
2016-03-15 11:23:12,150 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.BlockStoragePolicy: Failed to place enough replicas: expected size is 1 but only 0 storage types can be selected (replication=1, selected=[], unavailable=[DISK], removed=[DISK], policy=BlockStoragePolicy{HOT:7, storageTypes=[DISK], creationFallbacks=[], replicationFallbacks=[ARCHIVE]})
2016-03-15 11:23:12,150 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.blockmanagement.BlockPlacementPolicy: Failed to place enough replicas, still in need of 1 to reach 1 (unavailableStorages=[DISK], storagePolicy=BlockStoragePolicy{HOT:7, storageTypes=[DISK], creationFallbacks=[], replicationFallbacks=[ARCHIVE]}, newBlock=true) All required storage types are unavailable:  unavailableStorages=[DISK], storagePolicy=BlockStoragePolicy{HOT:7, storageTypes=[DISK], creationFallbacks=[], replicationFallbacks=[ARCHIVE]}
2016-03-15 11:23:12,151 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server: IPC Server handler 8 on 9000, call org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.ClientProtocol.addBlock from 10.104.247.78:52004 Call#61 Retry#0
java.io.IOException: File /metrics/abc/myfile could only be replicated to 0 nodes instead of [2016-03-15 13:34:16,663] INFO [Group Metadata Manager on Broker 0]: Removed 0 expired offsets in 1 milliseconds. (kafka.coordinator.GroupMetadataManager)
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<p>What could be the cause of this error?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>