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Hari Sekhon edited comment on HBASE-21014 at 8/8/18 12:37 PM:
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I thought that was the whole point of the FavoredNodeLoadBalancer  - so that 
HBase Balancer can write those HDFS hints based on the knowledge it has of 
region locations so that HDFS Balancer can read the preferred location hints 
and not move those blocks, therefore not losing data locality?


was (Author: harisekhon):
I thought that was the whole point of the FavoredNodeLoadBalancer  - so that 
HBase Balancer can write those HDFS hints based on the knowledge it has of 
region locations so that HDFS Balancer does not move them and lose data 
locality?

> Improve Stochastic Balancer to write HDFS favoured node hints for region 
> primary blocks to avoid destroying data locality if needing to use HDFS 
> Balancer
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>
>                 Key: HBASE-21014
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21014
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Balancer
>    Affects Versions: 1.1.2
>            Reporter: Hari Sekhon
>            Priority: Major
>
> Improve Stochastic Balancer to include the HDFS region location hints to 
> avoid HDFS Balancer destroying data locality.
> Right now according to a mix of docs, jiras and mailing list info it appears 
> that one must change
> {code:java}
> hbase.master.loadbalancer.class{code}
> to the org.apache.hadoop.hbase.favored.FavoredNodeLoadBalancer as it looks 
> like this functionality is only within FavoredNodeBalancer and not the 
> standard Stochastic Balancer.
> [http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#_hbase_and_hdfs]
> This is not ideal because we'd still like to use all the heuristics and work 
> that has gone in the Stochastic Balancer which I believe right now is the 
> best and most mature HBase balancer.
> See also the linked Jiras and this discussion:
> [http://apache-hbase.679495.n3.nabble.com/HDFS-Balancer-td4086607.html]



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