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Jimmy Xiang commented on HBASE-10873:
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bq. In that case, we do not even need this issue?
This patch makes it possible to put some load on backup masters. So that users
can make adjustments per their need. I hope we don't need this issue, if not
for the region moving concern during master failover.
bq. I'm not sure how we currently keep backup masters 'clear'. Wouldn't we
want it done in the LB?
Yes, it's done in the LB.
> Control number of regions assigned to backup masters
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> Key: HBASE-10873
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10873
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Balancer
> Reporter: Jimmy Xiang
> Assignee: Jimmy Xiang
> Fix For: 0.99.0
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> Attachments: hbase-10873.patch, hbase-10873_v2.patch
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> By default, a backup master is treated just like another regionserver. So it
> can host as many regions as other regionserver does. When the backup master
> becomes the active one, region balancer needs to move those user regions on
> this master to other region servers. To minimize the impact, it's better not
> to assign too many regions on backup masters. It may not be good to leave the
> backup masters idle and not host any region either.
> We should make this adjustable so that users can control how many regions to
> assign to each backup master.
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