[HBASE-3696] No durability when running with LocalFileSystem

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Component/s: documentation, wal
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 24/Mar/11 01:10
• Updated: 28/May/14 04:08
• Resolved: 28/May/14 04:08

Description

LocalFileSystem in Hadoop doesn't currently implement sync(), so when we're running in that case, we don't have any durability. This isn't a huge deal since it isn't a realistic deployment scenario, but it's probably worth documenting. It caused some confusion for a user when a table disappeared after killing a standalone instance that was hosting its data in the local FS.

Issue Links

• relates to: HADOOP-7844 Flush/sync do not work on Hadoop LocalFileSystem

Sub-Tasks

• Doc that localfs is not durable: Closed