From 8cfa1ce45bad4ce42ef8bdf29be796a37ff5b403 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Stack <stack@apache.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:38:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] HBASE-973 [doc] In getting started, make it clear that hbase
 needs to create its directory in hdfs

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/hbase/trunk@709270 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 CHANGES.txt            | 2 ++
 src/java/overview.html | 4 ++++
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index a7a8a63e182..6ed75b85d04 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ Release 0.19.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-970   Update the copy/rename scripts to go against change API
    HBASE-966   HBASE-748 misses some writes
    HBASE-971   Fix the failing tests on Hudson
+   HBASE-973   [doc] In getting started, make it clear that hbase needs to
+               create its directory in hdfs
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-901   Add a limit to key length, check key and value length on client side
diff --git a/src/java/overview.html b/src/java/overview.html
index e99ae8b6c2e..84110dcef21 100644
--- a/src/java/overview.html
+++ b/src/java/overview.html
@@ -91,6 +91,10 @@ HDFS whose namenode is at port 9000 on your local machine:
   ...
 &lt;/configuration&gt;
 </pre>
+<p>Note: Let hbase create the directory.  If you don't, you'll get warning saying hbase
+needs a migration run because the directory is missing files expected by hbase (it'll
+create them if you let it).
+</p>
 
 <h3><a name="fully-distrib">Fully-Distributed Operation</a></h3>
 For running a fully-distributed operation on more than one host, the following configurations