If HBase wasn't able to do that, we would have a major scalability problem :P
I agree tho that we should have a "Cluster Administration" page somewhere in the documentation, along with recommended configurations wrt cluster/data size. We've been talking a lot about writing it, but no one took the time to do it... yet. J-D On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Mridul Muralidharan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was not sure if I bring up a entirely new region server (which did not > exist earlier) if it can plug into the hbase deployment seemlessly - things > like register with master, start hosting/serving regions, automatically > without needing to modify master config, etc. > > Thanks all for clarifying ! > > Regards, > Mridul > > Jean-Daniel Cryans wrote: >> >> Use the commands described here: >> http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/Hbase/RollingRestart >> >> J-D >> >> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Mridul Muralidharan >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> Suppose I want to add a new region server to my instance. I imagine I >>> need >>> to add it to the list in the conf files for Hbase and Hadoop, and then >>> stop/start the cluster. Is there any way to add the server without >>> stopping >>> the system? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mridul >>> > >
