I this could be in the scope of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1667
"stop master" should just stop the master, not the cluster. J-D 2010/3/9 Michał Podsiadłowski <podsiadlow...@gmail.com>: > Hi all hbase fans, > > we have another question that we can't find the answer. Is it possible to > stop gracefully master (not by kill -9 ) without sending shutdown messages > to region serves? > Currently we are testing 2 masters architecture with failover and in this > configuration it is really undesirable to shutdown whole cluster when we > want only to perform only some updates on that node. > > Thanks, > Michal >