Totally doable. not supported in normal configuration - but easy enough to make. Open a jira. On Dec 26, 2011 8:38 PM, "Jagane Sundar" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello HBaseistas, > > I have a question: Has anyone here tried to run HBase with the WAL going > to one FileSystem, and the HFiles going to another? > > My casual perusal of the source code indicates that this is not possible, > so I am willing to hack a configuration option to do this and try it out. > > Let me explain my motivation for trying this experiment: I want to run > HBase on Amazon EC2, with the WAL going to a HDFS on Ephemeral Storage, and > HFiles going to S3. > > Is this a reasonable thing to attempt? Or am I out of my mind? > > Thanks in advance, and congratulations on building an outstanding piece of > software. > Jagane
