What version of HDFS is compatible with HBase stable?

Question

HBase stable is currently hbase-0.90.4, what version(s) of HDFS is it compatible with?

Answer 1

The answer is hadoop-0.20.205.0 but you also need to replace jar files in ./lib/ of HBase with the ones of your working HDFS installation.

For me it was:

rm /opt/hbase-0.90.4/lib/hadoop-core-0.20-append-r1056497.jar
cp /opt/hadoop-0.20.205.0/hadoop-core-0.20.205.0.jar /opt/hbase-0.90.4/lib/
cp /opt/hadoop-0.20.205.0/commons-configuration-1.6.jar /opt/hbase-0.90.4/lib/

In addition, you should to add the following to your HDFS and HBase configuration on all the nodes:

<property>
  <name>dfs.support.append</name>
  <value>true</value>
</property>