A distributed mode of HBase does not make use of the hbase.tmp.dir in any way. It simply leverages the DataNode's ability to scale over multiple disks and leaves the dirty work to it.
Makes sense to be parallelized for "beefier" standalone instances, but I wonder who uses those and how it may even be done as HBase expects/uses a flat directory structure presently. On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:49 AM, 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 -- Harsh J
