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Mikhail Antonov commented on HBASE-13103:
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[~stack] - missed that comments, sorry. I've assigned to myself jira to create
refguide on that.
Normalization is operated on/off in the same way as balancer or other
znode-based trackers. I'm actually torn on whether we should have it on or off
by default. Having it on by default sounds a bit aggressive, having it off
might delay adoption. What do you think? I'm inclined to have it on by default
with appropriate release note. If it misbehaves for someone, it's one shell
command to disable completely, and any feedback on such case would help to
improve "self-healing" heuristics.
> [ergonomics] add region size balancing as a feature of master
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HBASE-13103
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-13103
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Balancer, Usability
> Reporter: Nick Dimiduk
> Assignee: Mikhail Antonov
> Fix For: 2.0.0, 1.2.0, 1.3.0
>
> Attachments: HBASE-13103-branch-1.v3.patch, HBASE-13103-v0.patch,
> HBASE-13103-v1.patch, HBASE-13103-v2.patch, HBASE-13103-v3.patch
>
>
> Often enough, folks miss-judge split points or otherwise end up with a
> suboptimal number of regions. We should have an automated, reliable way to
> "reshape" or "balance" a table's region boundaries. This would be for tables
> that contain existing data. This might look like:
> {noformat}
> Admin#reshapeTable(TableName, int numSplits);
> {noformat}
> or from the shell:
> {noformat}
> > reshape TABLE, numSplits
> {noformat}
> Better still would be to have a maintenance process, similar to the existing
> Balancer that runs AssignmentManager on an interval, to run the above
> "reshape" operation on an interval. That way, the cluster will automatically
> self-correct toward a desirable state.
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