Github user ctubbsii commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/accumulo/pull/22#discussion_r26357025
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server/tserver/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/tserver/compaction/EverythingCompactionStrategy.java
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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
@Override
public boolean shouldCompact(MajorCompactionRequest request) throws
IOException {
- return request.getFiles().size() > 0;
+ return true; // ACCUMULO-3645 compact for empty files too
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A point to consider: unless it's definitely a bug fix, and we're sure we
want to change the behavior to fix that bug, our versioning rules would
disallow new functionality to be added in 1.6.3. It'd have to go in 1.7.
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