FYI, I corrected the typo of "Roll" to "Role". Sorry. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:18 PM, anil gupta <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > -- Thanks & Regards, Anil Gupta
