Here's my config. This is for a different file system so it might provide
some insight compared with the examples online (
http://hbase.apache.org/book/example_config.html)
You need the fully qualified name for the hbase.rootdir.
<property>
<name>hbase.master</name>
<value>hbase-master:60000</value>
<description>The host and port that the
HBase master runs at.
A value of 'local'
runs the master and a regionserver
in a single process.
</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>hbase.rootdir</name>
<value>glusterfs://hbase-master:9000/hbase</value>
<description>The directory shared by region
servers.</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>hbase.cluster.distributed</name>
<value>true</value>
<description>The mode the cluster will be
in. Possible values are
false: standalone and pseudo-distributed
setups with managed
Zookeeper true: fully-distributed with
unmanaged Zookeeper
Quorum (see hbase-env.sh)
</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>hbase.zookeeper.property.clientPort</name>
<value>2222</value>
<description>Property from ZooKeeper's config zoo.cfg.
The port at which the clients will connect.
</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>zookeeper.znode.parent</name>
<value>/hbase-master</value>
</property>
