It's not really a bug. I think the assumption is that if you are at the level of doing your own bulk loads, you should also manage when you want to compact and split. I know in cases where I've done this, I would usually know at certain points I would want to trigger major compactions.
At some level, bulk loads are about avoiding compactions so I don't think it would make sense that they automatically be triggered if solely bulk loads. JG > -----Original Message----- > From: Vidhyashankar Venkataraman [mailto:vidhy...@yahoo-inc.com] > Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 4:33 PM > To: hbase-u...@hadoop.apache.org > Cc: dev@hbase.apache.org > Subject: No minor compactions on a table built only on bulk loads > > I have a table (in 0.90 candidate) whose writes are solely through bulk > incremental loads. I had been running over a period of time and noticed that > the Storefiles were not minor compacting or splitting. I eyeballed the code > and observed that the (minor) compaction check is made at the time of > deploying the region and during every commit (after a flush?) but never > while bulk loading. > > Can you let me know if this was deliberate/an existing bug? > > Thank you > Vidhya
