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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:44:08 -0800
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Perfect. Thanks

On 11/11/11 8:43 AM, Stack wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Mark<static.void.dev@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Does HBase replicate blocks similar to how HDFS replicates for redundancy
>> reasons?
> HBase does not replicate blocks; the underlying FS does it for us.
>
>> Where can this be configured or is it already managed by the
>> hdfs-site.xml dfs.replication property?
>>
> You got it.
>
> St.Ack