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I have set the following property in my hbase-site.xml
<property>
<name>hbase.tmp.dir</name>
<value>/Users/me/deployments/current/data/hbase</value>
<description>The directory shared by RegionServers.
</description>
</property>
But when hbase starts up, in the log I see the following
2011-08-24 12:08:32,098 INFO
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer: Master passed us address to
use. Was=192.168.2.8:57445, Now=192.168.2.8:57445
2011-08-24 12:08:32,099 DEBUG
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer: Config from master:
fs.default.name=file:///
2011-08-24 12:08:32,099 DEBUG
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer: Config from master:
hbase.rootdir=file:///tmp/hbase-me/hbase
2011-08-24 12:08:32,106 DEBUG
org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer:
logdir=file:/tmp/hbase-me/hbase/.logs/192.168.2.8,57445,1314184107890
Why is it defaulting to /tmp?