Eugene, Currently we are close to getting 0.20.205 frozen which will be the first Apache Hadoop release with proper support for HBase.
hth, Arun On Sep 9, 2011, at 9:06 AM, Eugene Kirpichov wrote: > Hello, > > It appears from http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/HdfsSyncSupport > that for more than at least the latest year, durable edits haven't > been supported by the main branch of HBase & HDFS - only by a non-main > branch, an unreleased branch and a third-party distribution. > > This seems strange to me, as > http://hbase.apache.org/acid-semantics.html seems to claim that > durability is present, without indicating that it's actually not, by > default (part of the page looks like a plan, not like a claim about > the current state of things, which is also confusing). > > Is this because durable edits are not that much of a needed feature? > > [Disclaimer: I've not done much with HBase and Hadoop in general in a > while, so I may be asking questions completely stupid in the current > context] > > -- > Eugene Kirpichov > Principal Engineer, Mirantis Inc. http://www.mirantis.com/ > Editor, http://fprog.ru/
