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stack commented on HBASE-3857: ------------------------------ bq. "• entryOffsets:!the!“secondary!index” of!offsets!of!entries!in!the!block,!to! facilitate!a!quick!binary!search!on!the!key!(numEntries-int!values)" Is this worth the bother? A binary search of in-memory data structure? How many entries are you thinking there will be in these blocks? nvm on the above. I see your comment over in HBASE-3855 on how you want to binary search seek/reseeking. > Change the HFile Format > ----------------------- > > Key: HBASE-3857 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3857 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: New Feature > Reporter: Liyin Tang > Assignee: Mikhail Bautin > Attachments: hfile_format_v2_design_draft_0.1.pdf > > > In order to support HBASE-3763 and HBASE-3856, we need to change the format > of the HFile. The new format proposal is attached here. Thanks for Mikhail > Bautin for the documentation. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira