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stack commented on HBASE-1621: ------------------------------ Agreed. > merge tool should work on online cluster, but disabled table > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HBASE-1621 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1621 > Project: Hadoop HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: ryan rawson > Fix For: 0.20.1, 0.21.0 > > > taking down the entire cluster to merge 2 regions is a pain, i dont see why > the table or regions specifically couldnt be taken offline, then merged then > brought back up. > this might need a new API to the regionservers so they can take direction > from not just the master. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.