Currently HBase cannot ride over an HDFS restart. Might be feasible in the future but not currently planned. Some of the NameNode HA solutions might indirectly address this.
Why is it that you need to restart your namenode? > -----Original Message----- > From: Jack Levin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 10:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: stopping namenode and regionservers > > Hi, is it possible to tell regionservers not to die/stop when namenode > is restarted? Every onces in a while I need to restart namenode, and > it causes all regionservers pretty much to shutdown, and in many cases > not cleanly, which causes long start up delays (hlog, etc). > > Thanks. > > -Jack
