On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Weishung Chung <[email protected]> wrote: > Is zookeeper responsible for the backup/replication of -ROOT- and .META. > files?
No. These are kept in HDFS and rely on its replication. > It looks like I need multiple HBase masters setup to achieve high > availability. In the multiple masters setup, would there be any data loss in > the switch over after the first master became unavailable. > No. Master is not in the read/write path. Cluster can continue responding to read/writes even when Master(s) is (are) down. St.Ack
