I think HBASE-11604 warrants a new RC. Maybe in a dev release we could be more relaxed about this, would still be confusing for folks who play with this the first time, see the changed the behavior, and then they play again and it's back to what it was before.
-- Lars ----- Original Message ----- From: Stack <[email protected]> To: HBase Dev List <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 9:15 AM Subject: Re: First release candidate for HBase 0.99.0 (RC0) is available. Please vote by 09/17/2014 On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Enis Söztutar <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, > > Let me sink this RC, and spin another quick one containing HBASE-11604. > Will do tomorrow. > > You don't want to just fix in a 0.99.1? > Should I wait for HBASE-11967? > I'd say no. Non-critical. Takes some work to repro. We've had this problem always it seems. St.Ack > Enis > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected] > > > wrote: > > > I agree it would be surprising to have masters running RegionServers and > > hosting regions. Maybe we can take that kind of departure for 2.0? (Or > even > > 1.1?) It's not clear what state that will end up in. Default-on features > in > > 1.0 should carry forward and promote stability and familiarity? > > > > > > > On Sep 11, 2014, at 10:02 AM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks for doing the helpful writeup Enis. It helps doing evaluation. > > > > > > I have one question below. > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:56 AM, Enis Söztutar <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > ... > > > > > >> > > >> Starting with 0.99.0, the HBase master server and backup master > servers > > >> will > > >> also act as a region server. RPC port and info port for web UI is > shared > > >> for > > >> the master and region server roles. Active master will be hosting the > > meta > > >> table (and other hbase system tables, acl and namespace) by default > > >> (unless configured otherwise). The master and backup masters will not > be > > >> hosting user level regions. See HBASE-10569 and HBASE-11604 for more > > >> details. > > > > > > I think we should change this so this is NOT the default in 1.0. What > do > > > folks think? The new deploy topology will surprise going from earlier > > > version. Better folks enable it explicitly*? > > > St.Ack > > > > > > * I used to be in favor of this feature being on by default but I have > > > since changed my mind given how I see meta hosting evolving in the > > > near-future. > > >
