IIRC it used to be an issue if the folder was already existing, even if empty. It's not the case anymore.
J-D On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Jay Vyas <jayunit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi hbase. > > In normal installations, Im wondering who should create hbase root.dir. > > 1) I have seen pseudo-distributed mode docs implying that Hbase is smart > enough to do it by itself. > > "Let HBase create the hbase.rootdir directory. If you don't, you'll get > warning saying HBase needs a migration run because the directory is missing > files expected by HBase (it'll create them if you let it)." > > 2) But in bigtop, I see "mkdir" in the init-hdfs.sh : > > su -s /bin/bash hdfs -c '/usr/bin/hadoop fs -mkdir /hbase' > su -s /bin/bash hdfs -c '/usr/bin/hadoop fs -chown hbase:hbase /hbase' > > So whats the right way to maintain hbase-root ? > > > > -- > Jay Vyas > http://jayunit100.blogspot.com >
