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Zach York commented on HBASE-17437:
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I will be picking up work on this issue as Yishan will be on vacation for the
next few weeks. Could someone switch the assignee to me so I can add newer
versions of the patch files? Thanks!
> Support specifying a WAL directory outside of the root directory
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>
> Key: HBASE-17437
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-17437
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Filesystem Integration, wal
> Affects Versions: 1.2.4
> Reporter: Yishan Yang
> Assignee: Yishan Yang
> Labels: patch
> Fix For: 2.0.0, 1.4.0
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> Attachments: hbase-17437-branch-1.2.patch, hbase-17437-master.patch
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> Currently, the WAL and the StoreFiles need to be on the same FileSystem. Some
> FileSystems (such as Amazon S3) don’t support append or consistent writes.
> These two properties are imperative for the WAL in order to avoid loss of
> writes. However, StoreFiles don’t necessarily need the same consistency
> guarantees (since writes are cached locally and if writes fail, they can
> always be replayed from the WAL).
>
> This JIRA aims to allow users to configure a log directory (for WALs) that is
> outside of the root directory or even in a different FileSystem. The default
> value will still put the log directory under the root directory.
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