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Andrew Purtell commented on HBASE-10052:
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Cool [~cmccabe], would you like to provide a patch for this, or I can take it
... ?
> use HDFS advisory caching to avoid caching HFiles that are not going to be
> read again (because they are being compacted)
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> Key: HBASE-10052
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10052
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Colin Patrick McCabe
> Fix For: 0.98.0
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> HBase can benefit from doing dropbehind during compaction since compacted
> files are not read again. HDFS advisory caching, introduced in HDFS-4817,
> can help here. The right API here is {{DataInputStream#setDropBehind}}.
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