It's a little bit of a moving target. See http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2011/02/hadoop-availability/ for a summary of efforts that are in motion
See http://www.cloudera.com/blog/2009/07/hadoop-ha-configuration/ for one approach that uses DRDB. --Suraj On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Saurabh Sehgal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking into HBase and would like to know if there are any best > practices for recovering from namenode failures. > > I found this while doing some research online: > > http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/NameNodeFailover > > , but I would also like to hear opinions from the HBase community. > > Is configuring an NFS mount the only option to reliably recover from a > namenode failure ? > > Thank you, > > Saurabh >
