svn commit: r1209124 - /incubator/accumulo/branches/1.3/README

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Author: billie
Date: Thu Dec  1 15:43:10 2011
New Revision: 1209124

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1209124&view=rev
Log:
ACCUMULO-182 added a paragraph to the README stating that you need to create the walogs directories

Modified:
    incubator/accumulo/branches/1.3/README

Modified: incubator/accumulo/branches/1.3/README
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/accumulo/branches/1.3/README?rev=1209124&r1=1209123&r2=1209124&view=diff
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--- incubator/accumulo/branches/1.3/README (original)
+++ incubator/accumulo/branches/1.3/README Thu Dec  1 15:43:10 2011
@@ -61,11 +61,11 @@ Create conf/accumulo-site.xml.  You must
 file (instance.zookeeper.host).  Look at docs/config.html to see what
 additional variables you can modify and what the defaults are.
 
-* Some recommended modifications for the accumulo site are:
-
-logger.dir.walog
-	- a local directory that will be used to log updates which will be used in the event of
-	  tablet server failure
+Create the write-ahead log directory on all slaves.  The directory is set in 
+the accumulo-site.xml as the "logger.dir.walog" parameter.  It is a local 
+directory that will be used to log updates which will be used in the event of
+tablet server failure, so it is important that it have sufficient space and
+reliability.
 
 Synchronize your accumulo conf directory across the cluster.  As a precaution
 against mis-configured systems, servers using different configuration files