IIRC ZK's data will still go there if HBase manages it, even in distributed instances.
J-D On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote: > 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
