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Enis Soztutar commented on HBASE-8963:
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bq. What is the motivation? If you don't care about snapshots or other form of
backup you can turn of the archiver
I think the archive for hfiles as similar to the fs thrash. Normally, you do
not want to run with that. Adding a global config is unnecessary.
bq. so if you have skipArchive true but the file is referenced by a snapshot it
will be archived anyway.
ok good.
bq. I was thinking at the table flag also to avoid stuff like "echo
'drop_table', 'skip_archive' | hbase shell" executed by mistake.
If you explicitly set skip_archive, it is assumed you know what you are doing.
Requiring explicit alter is fine, but the feature won't be as usable i feel.
> Add configuration option to skip HFile archiving
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> Key: HBASE-8963
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8963
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ted Yu
> Assignee: bharath v
> Fix For: 0.99.0
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> Attachments: HBASE-8963.trunk.v1.patch, HBASE-8963.trunk.v2.patch,
> HBASE-8963.trunk.v3.patch, HBASE-8963.trunk.v4.patch,
> HBASE-8963.trunk.v5.patch, HBASE-8963.trunk.v6.patch,
> HBASE-8963.trunk.v7.patch
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> Currently HFileArchiver is always called when a table is dropped.
> A configuration option (either global or per table) should be provided so
> that archiving can be skipped when table is deleted.
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