Index: src/docbkx/configuration.xml =================================================================== --- src/docbkx/configuration.xml (revision 1150979) +++ src/docbkx/configuration.xml (working copy) @@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ sync. Hadoop 0.20.2 and Hadoop 0.20.203.0 DO NOT have this attribute. Currently only the branch-0.20-append - branch has this attribute + branch has this a working sync See CHANGES.txt in branch-0.20-append to see list of patches involved adding @@ -206,10 +206,17 @@ Building Hadoop and HBase for HBase Maven application development. . - Or rather than build your own, you could use Cloudera's CDH3. CDH has - the 0.20-append patches needed to add a durable sync (CDH3 betas will - suffice; b2, b3, or b4). +Or rather than build your own, you could use the + Cloudera or + MapR distributions. + Cloudera' CDH3 + is Apache Hadoop 0.20.x plus patches including all of the 0.20-append additions + needed to add a durable sync. Use the released version of CDH3 at least (They + have just posted an update). MapR is a commercial, reimplementation of HDFS. + It has a durable sync as well as some other interesting features that are not + yet in Apache Hadoop. Their + product is free to use and unlimited. + Because HBase depends on Hadoop, it bundles an instance of the Hadoop jar under its lib directory. The bundled