What version are you on? There is no hbase.master in hbase 0.20.x. Its a vestige of 0.19 hbase. Now you specify the zookeeper ensemble you want to connect to. It knows who master is.
Regards multi-master hbase, see http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/MultipleMasters off the main wiki page. St.Ack On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:06 PM, steven zhuang <zhuangxin8...@gmail.com> wrote: > hello, everyone. > > I found that we can leave hbase.master unset in hbase-site.xml, and > we can have a hbase cluster running OK. > Is there any mechanism like auto-election make one node the master? > > -- > best wishes. > steven >
