(changing the subject, let's not hijack threads)
will the data move over time though...for example if i have lots of access to
data in DataNode A ? without the current work that is in progress..
HBase has no control on that, but data will be moved if those regions
are used. Like the article
Glad to help.
About those tons of Qs, as much as we enjoy answering them, we don't
like to repeat ourselves too much (so few hours in a day, so many
things we'd like to develop for HBase). So to give you a kick start,
I'd like to point you to Google's Bigtable and the Hadoop Definitve
Guide as