Please see HBASE-4298 where this feature was introduced.
On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 5:12 AM, WangYQ wrote:
> yes, there is a tool graceful_stop.sh to graceful stop regionserver, and
> can move the regions back to the rs after rs come back.
> but i can not find the
One of use cases we use it is graceful stop of regionserver - you unload
regions from the server before you restart it. Of course, after restart you
expect HBase to move regions back.
Now I'm not really remembering correctly, but I kinda remember that one of
the features was at least that it will