Wouldn't that mean having the NAS attached to all of the nodes in the cluster?
Sent from a remote device. Please excuse any typos... Mike Segel On Mar 26, 2012, at 11:07 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Ted Tuttle <ted.tut...@mentacapital.com> > wrote: >> Is there a method of exporting that skips the HDFS step? We would >> ideally like to export from HBase directly to an external filesystem >> (e.g. our big slow NAS) skipping the HDFS step. >> > > Do an OutputFormat that just writes files to your NAS and hook it up > to the export tool in place of SequenceFileOutputFormat. Set your new > NASOutputFormat instead of SequenceFileOutputFormat here: > http://hbase.apache.org/xref/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapreduce/Export.html#99 > (You'll probably have to override Exporter to do your customization > copying bulk of createSubmittableJob into subclass) > > St.Ack >