Yes, that's right. And that's why you can compact ranges in 1.5. In 1.6.0, the compaction strategy will be pluggable so you can do this sort of compaction automatically.
-Eric On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 5:07 PM, Dickson, Matt MR < [email protected]> wrote: > *UNOFFICIAL* > Hi, > > We have data ingested in a date partitioned table, ie splits are created > for each day in the form yyyymmdd-nnn where n is a random number appended > to ensure the data is spread across the cluster. On the table we have > added an ageoff filter with scan, minc and majc scopes and we load the > table using bulk ingest. Because older splits have no new data going into > them it appears no major compactions occur so the ageoff filter is not > removing old data. I suspect the way to force a majc is to merge old > tablets is this correct? > > Thanks in advance, > Matt Dickson >
