> Thanks for the heads up. Do you know what happens if I set this value larger > than 5MB? We will always be scanning the data, and always in large blocks. > I have yet to calculate the typical size of a single scan but imagine that it > will usually be larger than 1MB.
I never tried that, hard to tell, but always eager to hear about others' experiences :) > > Also, is there any way to change the block size with data already in HBase? > Our current import process is very slow (preprocessing of the data) and we > don't have the resources to store the preprocessed data. After altering the table, issue a major compaction on it and everything will be re-written with the new block size. J-D
