Sounds to me like an ancient holdover from the days of MapFile. If we can change it easily, I'm all for that.
-Eric On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Christopher Tubbs <[email protected]>wrote: > It seems RFile has a preference for the Hadoop configuration object holding > Accumulo configuration over Accumulo per-table configuration in ZooKeeper. > > See RFileOperations.openWriter(...). > The affected configuration properties are: > > table.file.replication > table.file.blocksize > table.file.compress.blocksize > table.file.compress.blocksize.index > table.file.compress.type > > Furthermore, when they appear in Hadoop configuration, they cannot contain > the Accumulo shortcuts for specifying byte sizes (like "1G"). > > Is this a bug, or a feature? It seems like there's a potential for it to be > a feature, particularly in AccumuloFileOutputFormat, so one can specify the > property in Hadoop, but it could also be a bug if it shows up in the Hadoop > configuration files... especially since we don't prefix these configuration > properties with something unique, like "accumulo." > > Thoughts? > > -- > Christopher L Tubbs II > http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii >
