To all:
Thank you all.
Now I understand how to set "hbase.local.dir" and the reason
2013/12/20 Jean-Marc Spaggiari <jean-m...@spaggiari.org>
> Barath's respons is a good summary.
>
> There almost nothing going into hbase.local.dir. It's like in your local
> linux box. You don't specify more than one tmp directory. It's the same
> thing here. There will not be really any benefit of adding that.
>
>
> 2013/12/20 Bharath Vissapragada <bhara...@cloudera.com>
>
> > Hbase uses HDFS for data storage and region servers just use HDFS API to
> > write files. So you should be looking at balancing disk IO at datanode
> > level (dfs.datanode.data.dir as mentioned in other response). The path
> you
> > mentioned (hbase.local.dir) is just used for storing temporary files or
> > CP/dynamic jars etc (not data) by region server and doesn't take much
> space
> > / cause IO.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:49 PM, 谢良 <xieli...@xiaomi.com> wrote:
> >
> > > maybe you have a misunderstanding about "hbase.local.dir", please refer
> > to
> > > HBASE-6824 for why it was introduced.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > ________________________________________
> > > 发件人: Tao Xiao [xiaotao.cs....@gmail.com]
> > > 发送时间: 2013年12月20日 16:30
> > > 收件人: user
> > > 主题: Re: 答复: Should we set the property "hbase.local.dir" to a list of
> > > directories on different disks to spread I/O?
> > >
> > > Since "hbase.local.dir" specifes local directory, why doesn't it
> specify
> > > multiple directories on different disks to spread I/O, just as what
> > > "dfs.datanode.data.dir" does ?
> > >
> > >
> > > 2013/12/20 谢良 <xieli...@xiaomi.com>
> > >
> > > > Please take a look at "dfs.datanode.data.dir" in hdfs-site.xml.
> > > > P.S. "hbase.local.dir" supports one dir only, don't specify it with a
> > > > list:)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > ________________________________________
> > > > 发件人: Tao Xiao [xiaotao.cs....@gmail.com]
> > > > 发送时间: 2013年12月20日 15:11
> > > > 收件人: user
> > > > 主题: Should we set the property "hbase.local.dir" to a list of
> > directories
> > > > on different disks to spread I/O?
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > To spread I/O on multiple disks of the HBase cluster, I set the
> > > > property "hbase.local.dir" in hbase-site.xml to a comma-separated
> list
> > > of
> > > > directories on different disks as follows:
> > > >
> > > > <property>
> > > > <name>hbase.local.dir</name>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> <value>/storage/disk1/hbase.local.dir,/storage/disk2/hbase.local.dir,/storage/disk3/hbase.local.dir</value>
> > > > </property>
> > > >
> > > > is it right ?
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bharath Vissapragada
> > <http://www.cloudera.com>
> >
>
