Why is there only one instance of HLog.?

2011-08-23 Thread Akash Ashok
Hi, I was just wondering why is there only one instance of HLog? Wouldn't this incur the overhead of synchronization when more than one region tries to write to ? Why dnt we have an HLog per HRegion so that they Hregion's writes are independent of each other? Plz do let me know if I

Re: Why is there only one instance of HLog.?

2011-08-23 Thread Akash Ashok
plementation on each GFS server, these writes could cause a large number of disk seeks to write to the different physical log files." Cheers, Akash A On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Akash Ashok wrote: > Hi, > I was just wondering why is there only one instance of HLog? Wouldn'