On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Sergey Shelukhin <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi. > Is there a reason to do major compaction after split, instead of allowing > the reference files to go away gradually as the normal compactions happen? > I could think up two reasons - region with reference files currently cannot > be split again (not clear why not though, could just create more > references); and avoiding load on the same datanodes from both new regions. > Are there some other reasons? > We could do references to references but was afraid the linkage would be too fragile and would break in hard-to-trace ways. St.Ack
