Hi Tim, You can issue a $ hbase-daemon.sh stop regionserver on each node which tells the master to move the regions over and shut down the RS properly.
Lars On Nov 25, 2010, at 18:24, Tim Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Please forgive this rather naive question - I have a cluster and want > to decommission nodes (including the RS that hold the -ROOT- and > .META). Could someone please advise me the best way to do this > gracefully? Can I force HBase to move regions onto the region servers > I will keep up? The master will remain. > > Thanks, > Tim
