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[hbase] 01/03: Revert "HBASE-24106 Update getting started documentation after HBASE-24086"

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commit a602a00b8dced35667856a106a382fe1319cbd19
Author: Nick Dimiduk <nd...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Mon Apr 27 11:13:51 2020 -0700

    Revert "HBASE-24106 Update getting started documentation after HBASE-24086"
    
    This reverts commit 7de861bb839e05dfbf5709c55387c3be6dd7344b.
---
 src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/getting_started.adoc | 127 +++++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 75 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/getting_started.adoc b/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/getting_started.adoc
index c092ebc..e12b7a2 100644
--- a/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/getting_started.adoc
+++ b/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/getting_started.adoc
@@ -55,67 +55,85 @@ See <<java,Java>> for information about supported JDK versions.
 . Choose a download site from this list of link:https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/hbase/[Apache Download Mirrors].
   Click on the suggested top link.
   This will take you to a mirror of _HBase Releases_.
-  Click on the folder named _stable_ and then download the binary file that looks like
-  _hbase-<version>-bin.tar.gz_.
+  Click on the folder named _stable_ and then download the binary file that ends in _.tar.gz_ to your local filesystem.
+  Do not download the file ending in _src.tar.gz_ for now.
 
-. Extract the downloaded file and change to the newly-created directory.
+. Extract the downloaded file, and change to the newly-created directory.
 +
+[source,subs="attributes"]
 ----
-$ tar xzvf hbase-<version>-bin.tar.gz
-$ cd hbase-<version>/
+
+$ tar xzvf hbase-{Version}-bin.tar.gz
+$ cd hbase-{Version}/
 ----
 
-. Set the `JAVA_HOME` environment variable in _conf/hbase-env.sh_.
-  First, locate the installation of `java` on your machine. On Unix systems, you can use the
-  _whereis java_ command. Once you have the location, edit _conf/hbase-env.sh_ file, found inside
-  the extracted _hbase-<version>_ directory, uncomment the line starting with `#export JAVA_HOME=`,
-  and then set it to your Java installation path.
+. You must set the `JAVA_HOME` environment variable before starting HBase.
+  To make this easier, HBase lets you set it within the _conf/hbase-env.sh_ file. You must locate where Java is
+  installed on your machine, and one way to find this is by using the _whereis java_ command. Once you have the location,
+  edit the _conf/hbase-env.sh_ file and uncomment the line starting with _#export JAVA_HOME=_, and then set it to your Java installation path.
 +
-.Example extract from _conf/hbase-env.sh_ where `JAVA_HOME` is set
+.Example extract from _hbase-env.sh_ where _JAVA_HOME_ is set
   # Set environment variables here.
   # The java implementation to use.
   export JAVA_HOME=/usr/jdk64/jdk1.8.0_112
 +
 
-. Optionally set the <<hbase.tmp.dir,`hbase.tmp.dir`>> property in _conf/hbase-site.xml_.
-  At this time, you may consider changing the location on the local filesystem where HBase writes
-  its application data and the data  written by its embedded ZooKeeper  instance. By default, HBase
-  uses paths under <<hbase.tmp.dir,`hbase.tmp.dir`>> for these directories.
-+
-NOTE: On most systems, this is a path created under _/tmp_. Many system periodically delete the
-  contents of _/tmp_. If you start working with HBase in this way, and then return after the
-  cleanup operation takes place, you're likely to find strange errors. The following
-  configuration will place HBase's runtime data in a _tmp_ directory found inside the extracted
-  _hbase-<version>_ directory, where it will be safe from this periodic cleanup.
-+
-Open _conf/hbase-site.xml_ and paste the `<property>` tags between the empty `<configuration>`
-tags.
+. Edit _conf/hbase-site.xml_, which is the main HBase configuration file.
+  At this time, you need to specify the directory on the local filesystem where HBase and ZooKeeper write data and acknowledge some risks.
+  By default, a new directory is created under /tmp.
+  Many servers are configured to delete the contents of _/tmp_ upon reboot, so you should store the data elsewhere.
+  The following configuration will store HBase's data in the _hbase_ directory, in the home directory of the user called `testuser`.
+  Paste the `<property>` tags beneath the `<configuration>` tags, which should be empty in a new HBase install.
 +
 .Example _hbase-site.xml_ for Standalone HBase
 ====
 [source,xml]
 ----
+
 <configuration>
   <property>
-    <name>hbase.tmp.dir</name>
-    <value>tmp</value>
+    <name>hbase.rootdir</name>
+    <value>file:///home/testuser/hbase</value>
+  </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>hbase.zookeeper.property.dataDir</name>
+    <value>/home/testuser/zookeeper</value>
+  </property>
+  <property>
+    <name>hbase.unsafe.stream.capability.enforce</name>
+    <value>false</value>
+    <description>
+      Controls whether HBase will check for stream capabilities (hflush/hsync).
+
+      Disable this if you intend to run on LocalFileSystem, denoted by a rootdir
+      with the 'file://' scheme, but be mindful of the NOTE below.
+
+      WARNING: Setting this to false blinds you to potential data loss and
+      inconsistent system state in the event of process and/or node failures. If
+      HBase is complaining of an inability to use hsync or hflush it's most
+      likely not a false positive.
+    </description>
   </property>
 </configuration>
 ----
 ====
 +
-You do not need to create the HBase _tmp_ directory; HBase will do this for you.
+You do not need to create the HBase data directory.
+HBase will do this for you.  If you create the directory,
+HBase will attempt to do a migration, which is not what you want.
 +
-NOTE: When unconfigured, HBase uses <<hbase.tmp.dir,`hbase.tmp.dir`>> as a starting point for many
-important configurations. Notable among them are <<hbase.rootdir,`hbase.rootdir`>>, the path under
-which HBase stores its data. You can specify values for this configuration directly, as you'll see
-in the subsequent sections.
-+
-NOTE: In this example, HBase is running on Hadoop's `LocalFileSystem`. That abstraction doesn't
-provide the durability promises that HBase needs to operate safely. This is most likely acceptable
-for local development and testing use cases. It is not appropriate for production deployments;
-eventually you will lose data. Instead, ensure your production deployment sets
-<<hbase.rootdir,`hbase.rootdir`>> to a durable `FileSystem` implementation.
+NOTE: The _hbase.rootdir_ in the above example points to a directory
+in the _local filesystem_. The 'file://' prefix is how we denote local
+filesystem. You should take the WARNING present in the configuration example
+to heart. In standalone mode HBase makes use of the local filesystem abstraction
+from the Apache Hadoop project. That abstraction doesn't provide the durability
+promises that HBase needs to operate safely. This is fine for local development
+and testing use cases where the cost of cluster failure is well contained. It is
+not appropriate for production deployments; eventually you will lose data.
+
+To home HBase on an existing instance of HDFS, set the _hbase.rootdir_ to point at a
+directory up on your instance: e.g. _hdfs://namenode.example.org:8020/hbase_.
+For more on this variant, see the section below on Standalone HBase over HDFS.
 
 . The _bin/start-hbase.sh_ script is provided as a convenient way to start HBase.
   Issue the command, and if all goes well, a message is logged to standard output showing that HBase started successfully.
@@ -290,21 +308,26 @@ In the next sections we give a quick overview of other modes of hbase deploy.
 [[quickstart_pseudo]]
 === Pseudo-Distributed Local Install
 
-After working your way through the <<quickstart,quickstart>> using standalone mode, you can
-re-configure HBase to run in pseudo-distributed mode. Pseudo-distributed mode means that HBase
-still runs completely on a single host, but each HBase daemon (HMaster, HRegionServer, and
-ZooKeeper) runs as a separate process. Previously in <<quickstart,standalone mode>>, all these
-daemons ran in a single jvm process, and your data was stored under
-<<hbase.tmp.dir,`hbase.tmp.dir`>>. In this walk-through, your data will be stored in in HDFS
-instead, assuming you have HDFS available. This is optional; you can skip the HDFS configuration
-to continue storing your data in the local filesystem.
+After working your way through <<quickstart,quickstart>> standalone mode,
+you can re-configure HBase to run in pseudo-distributed mode.
+Pseudo-distributed mode means that HBase still runs completely on a single host,
+but each HBase daemon (HMaster, HRegionServer, and ZooKeeper) runs as a separate process:
+in standalone mode all daemons ran in one jvm process/instance.
+By default, unless you configure the `hbase.rootdir` property as described in
+<<quickstart,quickstart>>, your data is still stored in _/tmp/_.
+In this walk-through, we store your data in HDFS instead, assuming you have HDFS available.
+You can skip the HDFS configuration to continue storing your data in the local filesystem.
 
 .Hadoop Configuration
-NOTE: This procedure assumes that you have configured Hadoop and HDFS on your local system and/or a
-remote system, and that they are running and available. It also assumes you are using Hadoop 2.
+[NOTE]
+====
+This procedure assumes that you have configured Hadoop and HDFS on your local system and/or a remote
+system, and that they are running and available. It also assumes you are using Hadoop 2.
 The guide on
 link:https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/SingleCluster.html[Setting up a Single Node Cluster]
 in the Hadoop documentation is a good starting point.
+====
+
 
 . Stop HBase if it is running.
 +
@@ -325,8 +348,8 @@ First, add the following property which directs HBase to run in distributed mode
 </property>
 ----
 +
-Next, add a configuration for `hbase.rootdir` so that it points to the address of your HDFS instance, using the `hdfs:////` URI syntax.
-In this example, HDFS is running on the localhost at port 8020.
+Next, change the `hbase.rootdir` from the local filesystem to the address of your HDFS instance, using the `hdfs:////` URI syntax.
+In this example, HDFS is running on the localhost at port 8020. Be sure to either remove the entry for `hbase.unsafe.stream.capability.enforce` or set it to true.
 +
 [source,xml]
 ----
@@ -337,10 +360,10 @@ In this example, HDFS is running on the localhost at port 8020.
 </property>
 ----
 +
-You do not need to create the directory in HDFS; HBase will do this for you.
+You do not need to create the directory in HDFS.
+HBase will do this for you.
 If you create the directory, HBase will attempt to do a migration, which is not what you want.
-+
-Finally, remove the configuration for `hbase.tmp.dir`.
+
 . Start HBase.
 +
 Use the _bin/start-hbase.sh_ command to start HBase.