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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:07:42 -0700
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Subject: Re: HBase Standalone against multiple drives
From: Jean-Daniel Cryans <jdcryans@apache.org>
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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-marc@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