Hello Arun, Thanks for the clarification. Do you mean 0.20.205 will be a "default" (main, trunk, you name it) release and have durable edits?
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Arun C Murthy <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > > -- Eugene Kirpichov Principal Engineer, Mirantis Inc. http://www.mirantis.com/ Editor, http://fprog.ru/
