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Nick Dimiduk commented on HBASE-24753:
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bq. Actually, no... It is about HBASE-24286, where the AWS guys want to 
redeploy an HBase cluster with the old data on S3 but all new virtual machines 
as region server. So I say if you want to do this on cloud, you could also use 
EBS.

I see. I would classify HBASE-24286 as an operator error, in the sense that 
they are attempting to re-hydrate a cluster from partial state (missing WAL 
files/directories)... maybe a bug, except that there's never been (i've never 
seen) an explicit design that completely isolates root dir filesystem from 
master filesystem. What we're talking about in this JIRA is a design choice 
explicitly changing from what was intentionally decided before, intentionally 
introducing a persistence dependency on something additional to the root dir on 
the shared namespace filesystem.

bq. You could build the storage of the raft store on a HDFS? Or even just on a 
dynamodb as it is a just a KV? I do not see any problems here...

Consensus storage on HDFS would resolve the concern I attempted to clarify.

> HA masters based on raft
> ------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-24753
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-24753
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: master
>            Reporter: Duo Zhang
>            Priority: Major
>
> For better availability, for moving bootstrap information from zookeeper to 
> our own service so finally we could remove the dependency on zookeeper 
> completely.
> This has been in my mind for a long time, and since the there is a dicussion 
> in HBASE-11288 about how to storing root table, and also in HBASE-24749, we 
> want to have better performance on a filesystem can not support list and 
> rename well, where requires a storage engine at the bottom to store the 
> storefiles information for meta table, I think it is the time to throw this 
> idea out.
> The basic solution is to build a raft group to store the bootstrap 
> information, for now it is cluster id(it is on the file system already?) and 
> the root table. For region servers they will always go to the leader to ask 
> for the information so they can always see the newest data, and for client, 
> we enable 'follower read', to reduce the load of the leader(and there are 
> some solutions to even let 'follower read' to always get the newest data in 
> raft).
> With this solution in place, as long as root table will not be in a format of 
> region(we could just use rocksdb to store it locally), the cyclic dependency 
> in HBASE-24749 has also been solved, as we do not need to find a place to 
> store the storefiles information for root table any more.



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