Thanks for doing this Alejandro (I added a footnote to the snappy section in the hbase book that links to this message in case folks start wondering about the diff). St.Ack
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Alejandro Abdelnur <[email protected]> wrote: > The snappy integration in Hbase is based on Hadoop-Snappy ( > http://code.google.com/p/hadoop-snappy/). > > Hadoop trunk has now a Snappy codec (based on Hadoop-Snappy). > > Until we have a release of Hadoop including the Snappy codec, to enable > Hbase to use Snappy, Hbase should continue using Hadoop-Snappy. > > To ensure that things work smoothly and the switch over does not create any > issues, Hadoop-Snappy should be kept in sync with the Snappy codec in Hadoop > trunk. > > With the help of Issay, we've synch Hadoop-Snappy with Hadoop trunk. > > I'll take the job to kept them in sync in sync until we have a Hadoop > release with the Snappy codec. > > Thanks. > > Alejandro >
