You should be able to clean them Michael. Make sure their content have been moved into place under the hbase.rootdir first though. Thereafter they should not be referenced. We're done with them. St.Ack
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Michael Naseef <mtnaseef...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > is there any reason not to clean up the partition files > (partitions_<timestamp>) generated by HFileOutputFormat as soon as the job > that creates them finishes? >
