Well, I realized myself RS flush to HDFS is not designed to do incremental changes. So there is no way around of WAL? man..just wish it can run a bit faster:-P
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Qing Yan <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, thanks for the explaination. so data loss is normal in this case. > Yeah , I did a "kill -9". I did wait till the RS get reassigned and > actually let process B keep retring over the night .. > > Is WAL the only way to guarantee data safety in hbase? We want high insert > rate though. > Is there a middle ground? e.g. a sync operation to flush RS to HDFS will be > perfect! > > >> >
