Hi Lars, Thanks. I was just wary of doing that on the .META and ROOT. and wanted a confirmation.
Cheers, Tim On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Lars George <lars.geo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > You can issue a $ hbase-daemon.sh stop regionserver on each node which tells > the master to move the regions over and shut down the RS properly. > > Lars > > On Nov 25, 2010, at 18:24, Tim Robertson <timrobertson...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Please forgive this rather naive question - I have a cluster and want >> to decommission nodes (including the RS that hold the -ROOT- and >> .META). Could someone please advise me the best way to do this >> gracefully? Can I force HBase to move regions onto the region servers >> I will keep up? The master will remain. >> >> Thanks, >> Tim >
