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Lars Hofhansl commented on HBASE-15881:
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I will say that there is some onus on our users who might simply want BZIP2
compression and now need to assume the "risk" of a minor upgrade.
> Allow BZIP2 compression
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> Key: HBASE-15881
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15881
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: HFile
> Reporter: Lars Hofhansl
> Assignee: Lars Hofhansl
> Fix For: 2.0.0, 1.4.0, 0.98.20, 1.3.1
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> Attachments: 15881-0.98.txt
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> BZIP2 is a very efficient compressor in terms of compression rate.
> Compression speed is very slow, de-compression is equivalent or faster than
> GZIP.
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