Can you create same-level references instead of references to references? On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Enis Söztutar <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was thinking of allowing regions with refs to split again, but the > cleaning parent logic will get messy a lot. > > Enis > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 > > >
