Just today I saw this mentioned in the docs. They said they deliberately don't replicate those, otherwise "it gets very messy".
Stas On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Gen Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We are running into a case that if the region server that serves meta > table is down, all request will timeouts because region lookup is not > available. At this time, master is also not able to update meta table. > It seems that regions that serve root and meta are the single point of > failure in HBase. > Is there a way to get rid of it? Does HBase give a higher recover priority > to meta and root table? > > Thanks. > Gen >
