Hi Comanita, The WAL on/off setting is not global. You need to use the API to enable / disable WAL for each put that you do [ Put#setWriteToWAL(boolean) ].
I don't know what will happen when you set the flushlogentries to 0, but those options are not meant for switching off WAL. Friso On 5 jan 2011, at 16:26, Stefan Comanita wrote: > Hi, > > I am kinda new to the underlying part of HBase and I have a > question which seems trivial to me but i wasn't able to find an answer > for it, so here it goes: "how do I disable the Write Ahead Wall (WAL) > from the config file ?" i know about the setWriteToWAL(boolean) but i > would like to do it from a config file. > > Setting one or all of the > parameters hbase.regionserver.logroll.period, > hbase.regionserver.optionallogflushinterva, > hbase.regionserver.flushlogentries to 0 will do the trick ? > > Thank > you. > > Comanita Stefan > >
