Ah that is a very interesting solution Leif, this seems optimal to me. I am going to try this and I'll report back.
On Sep 12, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Leif Wickland wrote: > > Bryan, > > Have you considered writing your MR output to HFileFormat and then asking > the regions to adopt the result? That would allow you to avoid committing > any changes to HBase until you knew that the MR job ran successfully. > > Leif
