Thanks JD. My goal was to test the disks with and without RAID and compare... So I will go with pseudo-distributed mode.
JM 2013/7/16 Jean-Daniel Cryans <jdcry...@apache.org> > The local filesystem implementation doesn't support multiple drives > AFAIK, so your best bet is to RAID your disks if that's really > something you want to do. > > Else, you have to use HDFS. > > J-D > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari > <jean-m...@spaggiari.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > "In standalone mode, HBase does not use HDFS -- it uses the local > > filesystem instead" but is there a way to give it more than one directory > > to write on? > > > > Or is pseudo-distributed mode the only way to do that? > > > > Thanks, > > > > JM >