Meta table does not split currently, although this topic does come up every once in a while. You may want to look at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11165 - there's discussion on that topic you may find useful and interesting https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12016 - this is an improvement which was made in 1.0 (and backported to 0.98) which allows you to set number of cell versions to be kept in meta table, which could save space for large metas. Do you have a usecase where this becomes a real bottleneck for you? -Mikhail On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 1:44 AM, gzh1992n <[email protected]> wrote: > Recently,I am reading code of HBase-1.0.1.1 and I find -root- table was > removed in HBase-0.96. > now,the locating process is "look up zookeeper --> query hbase:meta --> get > region location". > I'm confused that hbase:meta is so large how to maintain without -root-? -- Thanks, Michael Antonov
