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Subject: Re: So where is the store file flushed to?
From: Asaf Mesika <asaf.mesika@gmail.com>
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Also note that due to HDFS placement policy the store file is written
locally - we'll first replica of each of its blocks so it's dispersed
amongst the drives you have onto on the data node which is also the region
server.

On Thursday, November 7, 2013, Ted Yu wrote:

> The store file is flushed to hdfs.
>
> bq. final compacted files will be written to HDFS, am i right?
>
> True.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Jia Wang <ramon@appannie.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Folks
> >
> > "When something is written to HBase, it is first written to an in-memory
> > store (memstore), once this memstore reaches a certain size, it is
> flushed
> > to disk into a store file." So where is the store file flushed to? Local
> > storage of the region server? Or HDFS?
> >
> > I'm a bit confused in this part, as I know the final compacted files will
> > be written to HDFS, am i right?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ramon
> >
>

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