It wouldn't hurt as you mention for increased tolerance of loss of data nodes. But the clients cache ROOT and META so read performance gain will be negligible.
- Andy ________________________________ From: Alexandra Alecu <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:05:06 PM Subject: Replication of -ROOT- and .META. directories Hi guys, Would you recommend using 'hadoop fs -setrep' on the -ROOT- and .META. directories under /hbase to increase the replication? Intuitively this would give a better chance in case of hardware/region failure or even could give faster access to the data regions? However I am not sure if I am right in my intuition and if this would benefit HBase or not. Thanks, Alexandra. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Replication-of--ROOT--and-.META.-directories-tp25172985p25172985.html Sent from the HBase User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
