According to Hbase design, Memstore flush is happened automatically behind
the theme when it reaches the size limit.

In my case, I want to do a hdfs migration, migrating hdfs data from one
cluster to another using distcp, I need to make sure there is nothing left
in-memory before I bring down hbase process in the source cluster. Is there
anyway we can manually force the flush even tho the memstore hasn't reached
the limit. Or, stopping hbase will trigger the flush automatically? if this
is the case, how do I know everything in-memory is flushed successfully to
HDFS? via metrics(memstoreSize)?
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All the best,
Shengjie Min

HBaseAdmin has a flush() api that accepts the table name.  This will ensure
that the data in memory is flushed.

Regards
Ram

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Shengjie Min <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> According to Hbase design, Memstore flush is happened automatically behind
> the theme when it reaches the size limit.
>
> In my case, I want to do a hdfs migration, migrating hdfs data from one
> cluster to another using distcp, I need to make sure there is nothing left
> in-memory before I bring down hbase process in the source cluster. Is there
> anyway we can manually force the flush even tho the memstore hasn't reached
> the limit. Or, stopping hbase will trigger the flush automatically? if this
> is the case, how do I know everything in-memory is flushed successfully to
> HDFS? via metrics(memstoreSize)?
> --
> All the best,
> Shengjie Min
>

>From the master node hbase master stop should also flush everything for
shutdown.

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 10:22 AM, ramkrishna vasudevan <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> HBaseAdmin has a flush() api that accepts the table name.  This will ensure
> that the data in memory is flushed.
>
> Regards
> Ram
>
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Shengjie Min <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > According to Hbase design, Memstore flush is happened automatically
> behind
> > the theme when it reaches the size limit.
> >
> > In my case, I want to do a hdfs migration, migrating hdfs data from one
> > cluster to another using distcp, I need to make sure there is nothing
> left
> > in-memory before I bring down hbase process in the source cluster. Is
> there
> > anyway we can manually force the flush even tho the memstore hasn't
> reached
> > the limit. Or, stopping hbase will trigger the flush automatically? if
> this
> > is the case, how do I know everything in-memory is flushed successfully
> to
> > HDFS? via metrics(memstoreSize)?
> > --
> > All the best,
> > Shengjie Min
> >
>

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Kevin O'Dell
Customer Operations Engineer, Cloudera