Yes, we normally run a 4 node hbase instance with 500G on each of the nodes for HDFS. Here's the hadoop fs -ls from a single node instance.
sathya ===== user@node1:/var/lib$ hadoop fs -ls -R /hbase drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2015-01-05 10:59 /hbase/.tmp drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2015-01-05 10:59 /hbase/WALs drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2015-01-06 13:00 /hbase/WALs/node1,60020,1420484330328 -rw-r--r-- 3 hbase hbase 29728249 2015-01-06 13:00 /hbase/WALs/node1,60020,1420484330328/node1%2C60020%2C1420484330328.1420574422072 -rw-r--r-- 3 hbase hbase 9 2015-01-06 12:59 /hbase/WALs/node1,60020,1420484330328/node1%2C60020%2C1420484330328.1420577990013.meta -rw-r--r-- 3 hbase hbase 9 2015-01-06 13:00 /hbase/WALs/node1,60020,1420484330328/node1%2C60020%2C1420484330328.1420578022196 drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2015-01-06 11:36 /hbase/archive drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2015-01-05 10:53 /hbase/corrupt drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2014-12-17 06:38 /hbase/data drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2014-12-17 06:45 /hbase/data/default drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2015-01-05 10:59 /hbase/data/default/tsdb drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2014-12-17 06:45 /hbase/data/default/tsdb/.tabledesc -rw-r--r-- 3 hbase hbase 283 2014-12-17 06:45 /hbase/data/default/tsdb/.tabledesc/.tableinfo.0000000001 drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2014-12-17 06:45 /hbase/data/default/tsdb/.tmp drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2015-01-06 11:34 /hbase/data/default/tsdb/22681186bbd538cc6f284d923feeed71 -rwxr-xr-x 3 hbase hbase 50 2014-12-30 16:14 /hbase/data/default/tsdb/22681186bbd538cc6f284d923feeed71/.regioninfo drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2015-01-06 12:34 /hbase/data/default/tsdb/22681186bbd538cc6f284d923feeed71/.tmp -rwxr-xr-x 3 hbase hbase 488820965376 2015-01-06 12:34 /hbase/data/default/tsdb/22681186bbd538cc6f284d923feeed71/.tmp/eca51fd20f464525a3a611fdcd61496e -drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2015-01-05 10:53 /hbase/data/default/tsdb/22681186bbd538cc6f284d923feeed71/recovered.edits drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2015-01-06 12:34 /hbase/data/default/tsdb/22681186bbd538cc6f284d923feeed71/t -rwxr-xr-x 3 hbase hbase 977014 2015-01-06 12:34 /hbase/data/default/tsdb/22681186bbd538cc6f284d923feeed71/t/0eea561cb7b841a7b7dbb6ead58f4556 -rwxr-xr-x 3 hbase hbase 775564 2015-01-05 10:53 /hbase/data/default/tsdb/22681186bbd538cc6f284d923feeed71/t/130b7f0ca2e646e29771367740713911 -rwxr-xr-x 3 hbase hbase 216732 2015-01-06 11:34 /hbase/data/default/tsdb/22681186bbd538cc6f284d923feeed71/t/3bbb590e4f1e4b57a9cca41a80271738 drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2015-01-05 13:00 /hbase/data/default/tsdb/8bb27e884a944b7e87422cf6b4258453 -rwxr-xr-x 3 hbase hbase 50 2014-12-30 16:14 /hbase/data/default/tsdb/8bb27e884a944b7e87422cf6b4258453/.regioninfo drwxr-xr-x - hbase hbase 0 2015-01-06 13:16 /hbase/data/default/tsdb/8bb27e884a944b7e87422cf6b4258453/.tmp -rwxr-xr-x 3 hbase hbase 0 2015-01-06 13:16 /hbase/data/default/tsdb/8bb27e884a944b7e87422cf6b4258453/.tmp/20679e20318c479ca30d980d9d26293e -- View this message in context: http://apache-hbase.679495.n3.nabble.com/HBase-with-opentsdb-creates-huge-tmp-file-runs-out-of-hdfs-space-tp4067577p4067589.html Sent from the HBase User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
