Ninad, Since the region servers store the data in HDFS, you could shut 99 servers in a cluster of 100 and you would lose nothing (but maybe stress the Master a bit). But you should close it by using "./bin/hbase-deamon.sh stop regionserver" on the node.
J-D On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Ninad Raut <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Just wanted to know if we remove a region server from a cluster will that > cause a loss of data?? >
