Hi, I am trying to permanently switch off the balancer in HBase, as my request distribution is not uniform across the data.
I understand that this can be done by, setting balance_switch to false in hbase shell hbase(main):023:0> balance_switch false However, value of balance_switch is reset back to true.. every time I restart the HBase cluster (which cannot be avoided in my deployment scenario). So my question is : Is there a way to permanently/persistently disable the hbase balancer ? I could not find a property for this balance_switch. I though of one possible solution, which is to set 'hbase.balancer.period' property to '-1'.. but it does not seems to work. Looking for suggestions. Thanks, Akshay
