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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 01:14:02 -0700
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Subject: Re: HBase configuration...
From: Ryan Rawson <ryanobjc@gmail.com>
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That seems reasonable, although the nice thing about /tmp is how
universal it is :-)


On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:05 AM, stephen mulcahy
<stephen.mulcahy@deri.org> wrote:
> Ryan Rawson wrote:
>>
>> yes, the standalone version uses file:///tmp to store data, to allow
>> people to get up and running without HDFS. =A0And you are exactly
>> correct, with /tmp being cleaned on reboot on many distros. =A0Grep for
>> /tmp in hbase-default.xml to find the setting.
>
> Would it be better to default this directory to /var/tmp which would achi=
eve
> the same goal of allowing people to quickly get up and running but might
> avoid some of the confusion of their HDFS disappearing on reboot (speakin=
g
> as one recently confused in such a manner ;)
>
> -stephen
>
> --
> Stephen Mulcahy, DI2, Digital Enterprise Research Institute,
> NUI Galway, IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, Galway, Ireland
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