To be fair it's not that restrictive, by default the master will wait 4.5 seconds before starting the region assignment and that's configurable via hbase.master.wait.on.regionservers.timeout
J-D On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: > If the regionservers come up one at a time, then I think that the region > assignment can get hosed even with 0.90. > If they are close to simultaneous, then things are better. > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Stopping a regionserver scrambles data locality until all of regions >> > are >> > compacted. >> >> For the record, the master reassigns the regions to their last owner >> since 0.90.0... but it does screw up the block cache and going though >> the flushing of regions in order to shutdown can take some time. >> >> J-D > >
