Oh, and while at it add a "Master" link, which can get that out of the ZK details. Otherwise you have to use the browsers back button to track back. Awkward.
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Lars George <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We have > > <p>Region names are made of the containing table's name, a comma, > the start key, a comma, and a randomly generated region id. To illustrate, > the region named > <em>domains,apache.org,5464829424211263407</em> is party to the table > <em>domains</em>, has an id of <em>5464829424211263407</em> and the first key > in the region is <em>apache.org</em>. The <em>-ROOT-</em> > and <em>.META.</em> 'tables' are internal sytem tables (or 'catalog' > tables in db-speak). > The -ROOT- keeps a list of all regions in the .META. table. The .META. table > keeps a list of all regions in the system. The empty key is used to denote > table start and table end. A region with an empty start key is the > first region in a table. > If region has both an empty start and an empty end key, its the only > region in the table. See > <a href="http://hbase.org";>HBase Home</a> for further explication.<p> > > this is *cough* slightly outdated. Need to updated for new style names, eg. > > usertable,user2023964814,1305724074865.9bd85e8e946817bd12233595eae5a4cf. > > Important is to note that the trailing dot is IMPORTANT (maybe not > why, but we need to say that it needs to be included). Also fix typos > in text along the way. > > Mkay? > > Lars >
