HColumnDescriptor.setMaxFileSize not working as expected?

[Jean-Marc Spaggiari]

Hi,

I just did a quick test and faced this situation.

hbase(main):017:0> create 'crc', 'c', { MAX_FILESIZE =>  '21474836480' }
hbase(main):018:0> describe 'crc'
DESCRIPTION
 'crc', {TABLE_ATTRIBUTES => {MAX_FILESIZE => '21474836480'}, {NAME => 'c',
DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING => 'NONE', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW', REPLICATION_SCOPE =>
'0', VERSIONS => '1', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', MIN_VERSIONS => '0', TTL =>
'FOREVER', KEEP_DELETED_CELLS => 'false', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', IN_MEMORY
=> 'false', BLOCKCACHE =>
'true'}

1 row(s) in 0.0320 seconds


Here you can see MAX_FILESIZE is correct.

hbase(main):019:0> disable 'crc'
hbase(main):020:0> drop 'crc'

Java API call:
    Configuration conf = HBaseConfiguration.create();
    HBaseAdmin hbase = new HBaseAdmin(conf);
    HTableDescriptor desc = new HTableDescriptor(TableName.valueOf("crc"));
    desc.setMaxFileSize(20*1024*1024*1024);
    HColumnDescriptor family = new HColumnDescriptor("c");
    desc.addFamily(family);
    hbase.createTable(desc);


hbase(main):021:0> describe 'crc'
DESCRIPTION
 'crc', {TABLE_ATTRIBUTES => {MAX_FILESIZE => '0'}, {NAME => 'c',
DATA_BLOCK_ENCODING => 'NONE', BLOOMFILTER => 'ROW', REPLICATION_SCOPE =>
'0', VERSIONS => '1', COMPRESSION => 'NONE', MIN_VERSIONS => '0', TTL =>
'FOREVER', KEEP_DELETED_CELLS => 'false', BLOCKSIZE => '65536', IN_MEMORY
=> 'false', BLOCKCACHE =>
'true'}

1 row(s) in 0.0320 seconds


Here MAX_FILESIZE is 0.

Tried with HBase 0.98.5-SNAPSHOT. I'm doing something wrong? Or it's an
issue (and I will open a JIRA)?

JM