That seems reasonable, although the nice thing about /tmp is how universal it is :-)
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:05 AM, stephen mulcahy <[email protected]> wrote: > Ryan Rawson wrote: >> >> yes, the standalone version uses file:///tmp to store data, to allow >> people to get up and running without HDFS. And you are exactly >> correct, with /tmp being cleaned on reboot on many distros. Grep for >> /tmp in hbase-default.xml to find the setting. > > Would it be better to default this directory to /var/tmp which would achieve > the same goal of allowing people to quickly get up and running but might > avoid some of the confusion of their HDFS disappearing on reboot (speaking > as one recently confused in such a manner ;) > > -stephen > > -- > Stephen Mulcahy, DI2, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, > NUI Galway, IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, Galway, Ireland > http://di2.deri.ie http://webstar.deri.ie http://sindice.com >
