While 0.89/0.90 is the way to go, there is also the 0.20-append branch of Hadoop, in the hadoop-common repo, which is better than nothing if using HBase 0.20:
http://github.com/apache/hadoop-common/tree/branch-0.20-append There is also an amalgamation of 0.20-append and Yahoo Secure Hadoop 0.20.104: http://github.com/apurtell/hadoop-common/tree/yahoo-hadoop-0.20.104-append I'd recommend the former unless you also want strong authentication via Kerberos. Best regards, - Andy Why is this email five sentences or less? http://five.sentenc.es/