In refguide we repeat content of hbase-default.xml: http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbase.tmp.dir
What Nick said plus its used to keep all data when doing standlone hbase. We should amend doc. to say that you cannot do comma-delimited list? St.Ack On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:19 PM, anil gupta <anilgupt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to figure out the exact roll of "hbase.tmp.dir" in HBase but i > could not find any detailed reference on HBase wiki and mailing list > archives. Can anybody tell me for which purpose hbase.tmp.dir is used? Is > it a comma separated value that can take multiple directories? Any > reference document on it would be highly appreciated? > > -- > Thanks & Regards, > Anil Gupta >