HBase snapshots are a very useful feature. but it was implemented back before there was the ability to snapshot via HDFS.
Newer versions of Hadoop support HDFS snapshots. I was wondering if the community would be interested in something like a Snapshot V3 where we use HDFS to take these snapshots. Even with manifests (Snapshot V2) for our larger tables it can take hours to Snapshot and Clone a table. Would this feature be of use to anyone? thanks rahul
