When we are doing rolling restarts, the load balancer is automatically turned off.
hbase@node3:~/hbase$ ./bin/graceful_stop.sh --restart --reload --debug buldo Disabling balancer! HBase Shell; enter 'help<RETURN>' for list of supported commands. Type "exit<RETURN>" to leave the HBase Shell Version 0.94.6.1, r1464658, Thu Apr 4 10:58:50 PDT 2013 balance_switch false false 0 row(s) in 0.4110 seconds . . . However, in the documentation, we still recommand to turn it of manually before doing the rolling restart: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#rolling Should the documentation be updated to reflect that it's not required anymore to turn off the load balancer since it will be done by the script? JM
