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James Taylor commented on HBASE-10498:
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Can this work be done in 0.98?
> Add new APIs to load balancer interface
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> Key: HBASE-10498
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10498
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Balancer
> Reporter: rajeshbabu
> Assignee: rajeshbabu
> Fix For: 0.99.0
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> If a custom load balancer required to maintain region and corresponding
> server locations,
> we can capture this information when we run any balancer algorithm before
> assignment(like random,retain).
> But during master startup we will not call any balancer algorithm if a region
> already assinged
> During split also we open child regions first in RS and then notify to master
> through zookeeper.
> So split regions information cannot be captured into balancer.
> Since balancer has access to master we can get the information from online
> regions or region plan data structures in AM.
> But some use cases we cannot relay on this information(mainly to maintain
> colocation of two tables regions).
> So it's better to add some APIs to load balancer to notify balancer when
> *region is online or offline*.
> These APIs helps a lot to maintain *regions colocation through custom load
> balancer* which is very important in secondary indexing.
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