> The 'stable' is still 0.94.19? Lets fix this. 0.98.3 becomes new 'stable'?
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Enis Söztutar <e...@apache.org> wrote: > Inlined. > ... > > > One more question: future upgrade from 0.96 -> 1.0 and 0.98 -> 1.0? > > > Rolling or not? > > > > 0.96 -> 1.0 probably won't be supported unless there is explicit interest > and work for it. I doubt that will happen. The reason is hfile v3 is > default in 1.0, but 0.96 code base cannot read hfile v3 files. This means > that rolling restarts is tricky because if a new server writes a new hfile, > old servers cannot read this, the region won't be opened and will keep > bouncing until it hits a new server. In theory it should work, but I won't > recommend doing it. > > Our book actually says this http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#d3219e3534 (Yah!). St.Ack
