I think that the proposal on the table is to actually simplify things a bit by making the shutdown of the master not cause the shutdown of the regions. Less coupling is simpler.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:47 PM, M. C. Srivas <mcsri...@gmail.com> wrote: > To tell you the truth, I really like the simplicity that exists today in > launching a hbase cluster > - start the master somewhere > - start the RS's wherever you like > > And it just works! Very nice. > > Perhaps adding an acl on the master in is order to prevent the unexpected > shutdown (or extra master, or other funky stuff from accidentally > happening). > > Making it more complex to start/shutdown doesn't really help. Many of us > will then write a wrapper script to make it simple again, and we are back > to > square one. > > > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Bill Graham <billgra...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > So the question is, is this a bug or a feature? If it's a feature it > > > seems like an incredibly dangerous one. Once our live cluster is > > > running, those configs will also be needed on the client so really bad > > > things could happen by mistake. > > > > > > > One time it might have been thought a 'feature' but now its a bug I'd > > say given the above. I opened > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3590 using this thread as > > context. > > > > St.Ack > > >
