I have a local cluster running, and its logging to <hbase>/log_X.X.X.X_1213228101021_60020/
Then I kill both master and regionserver, and restart. Looking through the logs I don't see anything about trying to recover from this hlog, it just creates a new hlog alongside the existing one (with a new startcode). The older hlog seems to be ignored, and the tables created in the inital session are all gone. So is this the expected behavior? Log recovery only works if the master survives to orchestrate the process? -clint