Thanks George. Cheers, Karthik
On 5 July 2011 12:13, Lars George <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Karthik, > > Yes, that is correct. If you disable the WAL on puts (and deletes) then you > are on your own. In other words, using the WAL is what you want pretty much > all the time. But there are rare cases where it makes sense to bypass it. > > Lars > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:42 AM, karthik tunga <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am reading about LSM trees (in HBase : The Definitive guide) and >> wondering if the log file mention is nothing but the write-ahead log >> (WAL) in HBase? >> If it is , how are sequential writes guaranteed when write to WAL is >> set to false ? >> >> Sorry if I am missing or have misunderstood something here. >> >> Cheers, >> Karthik >> >
