You beat me to it, Lars! Was writing a response when some family arrived for the holidays, and when I came back, you had written just what I had started :)
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Lars George <[email protected]> wrote: > live ones and then moved into place from their temp location. Not sure > what happens if the local cluster has no /hbase etc. > > Todd, could you help here? > Yep, there is a code path where if the HFiles are on a different filesystem, it will copy them to the HBase filesystem first. It's not very efficient, though, so it's probably better to distcp them to the local cluster first. -Todd -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
