When there're two (or more) region server instances running on the same machine, the ident str can be used to distinguish the instances.
There may be other scenarios where the ident str is used. Cheers On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 3:55 AM, Lars George <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Was coming across `HBASE_IDENT_STR` (in hbase-env.sh) which sets > `hbase.id.str` as a command line parameter to the daemon. But I cannot > find where that is used. Could someone point me in the right > direction? > > Cheers, > Lars >
