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Eli Collins commented on HBASE-5353:
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@Jesse, how is the HMaster machine a single point of failure? A SPOF is a part
of the system that, if it fails, sstop the entire system from working. Because
there's automatic HMaster failover that's not the case for HBase.
> HA/Distributed HMaster via RegionServers
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> Key: HBASE-5353
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5353
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: master, regionserver
> Affects Versions: 0.94.0
> Reporter: Jesse Yates
> Priority: Minor
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> Currently, the HMaster node must be considered a 'special' node (single point
> of failure), meaning that the node must be protected more than the other
> commodity machines. It should be possible to instead have the HMaster be much
> more available, either in a distributed sense (meaning a bit rewrite) or with
> multiple instances and automatic failover.
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