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Josh Elser commented on ACCUMULO-650:
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Table ids aren't anything more than a hex one-up counter. Also, a clone is lazy
in that doesn't make a copy of the data until it changes as compared to the
table it was cloned from (as in, both tables will point to the same file on
disk right after the clone).
Personally, I would expect a user doing something like..
{noformat}
> createtable foo
foo> desc -u 'full of foo!'
foo> insert bar bar bar bar
foo> clonetable foo bar
bar> desc -u 'full of bar!'
{noformat}
I guess I envision the common use case would be that someone clone a table, and
then want to update the description with why they cloned it. Mostly thinking
out loud here too :)
> Add table descriptions
> ----------------------
>
> Key: ACCUMULO-650
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-650
> Project: Accumulo
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: master
> Reporter: John Vines
> Assignee: Kevin Faro
>
> We should add a table description field, probably in zookeeper, to store an
> optional field end users can use to provide their relevant information on the
> table.
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