> > Well we go through most of the problems, unless you use HBase in ways > very different from ours (like 10x the machine and load), then you > might hit issues. But, we are very helpful and usually fix issues in a > very timely fashion. We are also always available in our IRC channel, > #hbase on freenode.
I know that I've asked a few questions in IRC and you or someone else usually answered in a few minutes. This may be a good opportunity to thank you again for that :) > > It will be in 0.21, it's not production ready (we are using it on our > processing cluster which, as you can guess, runs on hadoop 0.21 and > hbase trunk... both unreleased). For 0.20... we'll see, depends on > other stuff going on currently. The cyclic stuff still misses some > parts (not that bad), selective replication is done on the family > level and it's currently working. My understanding is that 0.21 doesn't have an expected release date yet. Right? > > > > > As for the issue with shutting down the master node, what I see is that > > running "hbase-daemon.sh stop master" continues printing dots forever. > > Looking at the code for that script, it is trying to run "./hbase master > > stop". If I run that command manually it seems to ignore the stop parameter > > and trying to load another instance of the server which fails in my case > > because the server is already running and the JMX port is busy. There is > > nothing in the log and the out file only has the exception thrown by the JMX > > trying to bind to the busy socket. > > That is the problem. That bind happens when the JVM boots and makes it > exit, so it really doesn't stop the master at all. 0.20.3 has a fix > for that. I am already using 0.20.3 -eran
