It appears to be randomly chosen. I just came across this blog post from Lars George about HBase file locality in HDFS http://www.larsgeorge.com/2010/05/hbase-file-locality-in-hdfs.html
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:12 PM, SF Hadoop <sfhad...@gmail.com> wrote: > What is the block placement policy hadoop follows when rack aware is not > enabled? > > Does it just round robin? > > Thanks. >
