Re: Sync and Data Replication

2012-06-10 Thread Harsh J
Mohit, On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Mohit Anchlia mohitanch...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Harsh for detailed info. It clears things up. Only thing from those page is concerning is what happens when client crashes. It says you could lose upto a block worth of information. Is this still true

Re: Sync and Data Replication

2012-06-10 Thread Mohit Anchlia
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Harsh J ha...@cloudera.com wrote: Mohit, On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Mohit Anchlia mohitanch...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Harsh for detailed info. It clears things up. Only thing from those page is concerning is what happens when client crashes. It

Re: Sync and Data Replication

2012-06-09 Thread Harsh J
in replication of data to other nodes. Say client writes a line to a file in Hadoop, at this point file handle is open and sync has not been called. In this scenario is data also replicated as defined by the replication factor to other nodes as well? I am wondering if at this point if crash occurs do I have

Re: Sync and Data Replication

2012-06-09 Thread Mohit Anchlia
(), HBase can survive potential failures caused by major power failure cases (among others). Let us know if this clears it up for you! On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Mohit Anchlia mohitanch...@gmail.com wrote: I am wondering the role of sync in replication of data to other nodes. Say client

Sync and Data Replication

2012-06-08 Thread Mohit Anchlia
I am wondering the role of sync in replication of data to other nodes. Say client writes a line to a file in Hadoop, at this point file handle is open and sync has not been called. In this scenario is data also replicated as defined by the replication factor to other nodes as well? I am wondering