On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Taylor, Ronald C <[email protected]> wrote: > So - can I simply change this one param, and point HBase to a location in the > Lustre file system? That Is, use > > <property> > <name>hbase.rootdir</name> > <value>file:///pic/scratch/rtaylor/hbase</value> > </property> > > Where "/pic" points to the root of the Lustre system. Or use something > similar?
Try it. The local filesystem does not do sync so there'll be data loss if a machine crashes. Or, have hbase us an hdfs that runs on the local disks but on job completion, copy the hdfs hbase content to lustre? That might be better though it sounds like that lustre setup is pretty sweet. St.Ack
