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Posted to commits@hbase.apache.org by mi...@apache.org on 2016/02/26 18:38:43 UTC
hbase git commit: HBASE-15332 Document how to take advantage of
HDFS-6133 in HBase
Repository: hbase
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refs/heads/master e88d94318 -> c5288947d
HBASE-15332 Document how to take advantage of HDFS-6133 in HBase
(cherry picked from commit e0a656ed50027a7d982f1eca7a8c0ee3cab47f92)
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Branch: refs/heads/master
Commit: c5288947ddc4abae2f4036544a775ff81538df2f
Parents: e88d943
Author: Misty Stanley-Jones <ms...@cloudera.com>
Authored: Thu Feb 25 13:51:26 2016 -0800
Committer: Misty Stanley-Jones <ms...@cloudera.com>
Committed: Fri Feb 26 09:38:32 2016 -0800
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diff --git a/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/troubleshooting.adoc b/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/troubleshooting.adoc
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@@ -1347,6 +1347,28 @@ Settings for HDFS retries and timeouts are important to HBase.::
Defaults are current as of Hadoop 2.3.
Check the Hadoop documentation for the most current values and recommendations.
+The HBase Balancer and HDFS Balancer are incompatible::
+ The HDFS balancer attempts to spread HDFS blocks evenly among DataNodes. HBase relies
+ on compactions to restore locality after a region split or failure. These two types
+ of balancing do not work well together.
++
+In the past, the generally accepted advice was to turn off the HDFS load balancer and rely
+on the HBase balancer, since the HDFS balancer would degrade locality. This advice
+is still valid if your HDFS version is lower than 2.7.1.
++
+link:https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6133[HDFS-6133] provides the ability
+to exclude a given directory from the HDFS load balancer, by setting the
+`dfs.datanode.block-pinning.enabled` property to `true` in your HDFS
+configuration and running the following hdfs command:
++
+----
+$ sudo -u hdfs hdfs balancer -exclude /hbase
+----
++
+NOTE: HDFS-6133 is available in HDFS 2.7.0 and higher, but HBase does not support
+running on HDFS 2.7.0, so you must be using HDFS 2.7.1 or higher to use this feature
+with HBase.
+
.Connection Timeouts
Connection timeouts occur between the client (HBASE) and the HDFS DataNode.
They may occur when establishing a connection, attempting to read, or attempting to write.