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Those configs are about the interaction between the hbase client and
region server.

What you are trying to do doesn't make much sense IMO, there's no such
thing as a primary datanode.

J-D

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Jack Levin <magnito@gmail.com> wrote:
> =A0<property>
> =A0 =A0<name>hbase.client.pause</name>
> =A0 =A0<value>1000</value>
> =A0 =A0<description>General client pause value. =A0Used mostly as value t=
o wait
> =A0 =A0before running a retry of a failed get, region lookup, etc.</descr=
iption>
> =A0</property>
> =A0<property>
> =A0 =A0<name>hbase.client.retries.number</name>
> =A0 =A0<value>10</value>
> =A0 =A0<description>Maximum retries. =A0Used as maximum for all retryable
> =A0 =A0operations such as fetching of the root region from root region
> =A0 =A0server, getting a cell's value, starting a row update, etc.
> =A0 =A0Default: 10.
> =A0 =A0</description>
> =A0</property>
>
>
> Are those the numbers to adjust? =A0We want to be able to switch to
> other datanodes that have replicated blocks faster should the primary
> datanode be dead, network unavailable, or any other reason.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Jack
>