On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:12 PM, rahul gidwani <rahul.gidw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Even with manifests (Snapshot V2) for our larger tables it can take hours > to Snapshot and Clone a table. > on snapshot time the only thing that can take hours, is "flush". if you don't need that (which is what you get with hdfs snapshots) you can specify SKIP_FLUSH => true Matteo On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:12 PM, rahul gidwani <rahul.gidw...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
