[HBASE-6260] balancer state should be stored in ZK

• Type: Task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.95.2
• Component/s: master, Zookeeper
• Assignee: Gregory Chanan
• Reporter: Gregory Chanan
• Created: 22/Jun/12 20:30
• Updated: 13/Jun/22 16:50
• Resolved: 14/Sep/12 22:37

Description

See: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5953?focusedCommentId=13270200&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13270200

And: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5630?focusedCommentId=13399225&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13399225

In short, we need to move the balancer state to ZK so that it won't have to be restarted if the master dies.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: HBASE-3816 Put the balancer switch in ZK