>1. to know which of the HDFS namenode is active add remote cluster HA configuration to your "local" hdfs client configuration
>Afaik, it should be done through zookeeper, but through which API it will be more convenient? no,no,no use hdfs-site.xml configuration. You need to add configuration for remote NN HA and your local hdfs client would correctly resolve active NN. 2015-09-23 11:32 GMT+02:00 Akmal Abbasov <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > I would like to know the best practice when exporting a snapshot to remote > hbase cluster with ha configuration. > My assumption is: > 1. to know which of the HDFS namenode is active > 2. export snapshot to active namenode > > Since I need to do this programmatically what is the best way to know > which namenode is active? > Afaik, it should be done through zookeeper, but through which API it will > be more convenient? > > Thanks.
