Hi, Short answer: No.
Longer answer: HBase uses the underlying filesystem (typically HDFS) to replicate and persist data. This is independent of the key space. Any special block placement policy like you want would be handled by the filesystem. To my knowledge, HDFS doesn't support it. HDFS also does not like heterogeneous backing storage at the moment. It causes problems if one node fills before the others, and there is not yet an automatic mechanism for moving blocks from full nodes to less utilized ones, though I see there is an issue for that: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-339 . I wouldn't recommend a setup like you propose. - Andy ________________________________ From: Tux Racer <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, November 26, 2009 11:14:15 AM Subject: newbie question on disk usage on node with different disk size Hello Hbase Users! I am trying to find some pointers on how to configure hbase region server and in particular how the disk will be filled on each node. Say for instance that I have a small cluster of 3 nodes: node 1 has a 100Gb disk node 2 has a 200Gb disk and node 3 has a 300 Gb disk is there a way to tell hbase that it should store the keys proportionally to the he node disk space? (i.e. to have at some stage each disk filled at 50%: 50/100/150 Gb of space used) Or is that a pure Hadoop configuration question? I looked at the files in the ~/hbase-0.20.1/conf/ folder with no luck. Thanks TR
