Hi All, Thanks a lot for your helpful inputs.
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote: > You're correct - I spoke with only user-data in mind. > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Jean-Daniel Cryans <[email protected]> > wrote: > > IIRC ZK's data will still go there if HBase manages it, even in > > distributed instances. > > > > J-D > > > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A distributed mode of HBase does not make use of the hbase.tmp.dir in > >> any way. It simply leverages the DataNode's ability to scale over > >> multiple disks and leaves the dirty work to it. > >> > >> Makes sense to be parallelized for "beefier" standalone instances, but > >> I wonder who uses those and how it may even be done as HBase > >> expects/uses a flat directory structure presently. > >> > >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:49 AM, anil gupta <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >>> I am trying to figure out the exact role of "hbase.tmp.dir" in HBase > but i > >>> could not find any detailed reference on HBase wiki and mailing list > >>> archives. Can anybody tell me for which purpose hbase.tmp.dir is used? > Is > >>> it a comma separated value that can take multiple directories? Any > >>> reference document on it would be highly appreciated? > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Thanks & Regards, > >>> Anil Gupta > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Harsh J > > > > -- > Harsh J > -- Thanks & Regards, Anil Gupta
