Hi Senthil, This property refers to the location in _HDFS_ where HBase will store the table data. This is completely separate from wherever you choose to unpack the HBase .tar.gz distribution to on your machine.
If you are running a distributed setup, you will need to replace "localhost" with the hostname of your Hadoop NameNode. Otherwise, just leave it as is. If you haven't already, please look at the Hadoop Quick Start ( http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/quickstart.html) as well and browse through the related HDFS documentation. Hope this helps. Gary On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 8:16 AM, jayavelu jaisenthilkumar < joysent...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I come across Overview (HBase 0.20.3 API) > > there they mentioned like > > <configuration> > ... > <property> > <name>hbase.rootdir</name> > <value>hdfs://localhost:9000/hbase</value> > <description>The directory shared by region servers. > </description> > </property> > ... > </configuration> > > is this /hbase is the HBASE_root directory, in my case i installed > the directory is /home/hadoop/hbase-0.20.3. > > What is the value here i need to give > hdfs://localhost:9000/home/hadoop/hbase-0.20.3 > or > hdfs://localhost:9000/hbase-0.20.3 > > Can anybody tell me > > Regs, > Senthil >
