Can you post your hbase-site.xml ? /apps/hbase/data/archive/data/default is where HFiles are archived (e.g. when a column family is deleted, HFiles for this column family are stored here). /apps/hbase/data/data/default seems to be your hbase.rootdir
bq. a problem I'm having running map/reduce jobs against snapshots Can you describe the problem in a bit more detail ? Cheers On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Brian Jeltema < brian.jelt...@digitalenvoy.net> wrote: > I'm trying to track down a problem I'm having running map/reduce jobs > against snapshots. > Can someone explain the difference between files stored in: > > /apps/hbase/data/archive/data/default > > and files stored in > > /apps/hbase/data/data/default > > (Hadoop 2.4, HBase 0.98) > > Thanks
