Mark, If the NN goes down the entire HBase cluster will be halted. If the HMaster is down, you will not be able to get regions assigned (in case any regionserver goes down).
So the best thing to do is start NN and Hmaster on another node, do you upgrade and move them back. Thanks Karthik On 11/16/11 10:42 AM, "Mark" <[email protected]> wrote: >We will be adding more memory into our master node in the near future. >We generally don't mind if our map/reduce jobs are unable to run for a >short period but we are more concerned about the impact this may have on >our HBase cluster. Will HBase continue to work will hadoops name-node >and/or HMaster is down? If not where are some ways we could minimize our >downtime? Thanks
