On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Jack Levin <[email protected]> wrote: > Its definitely binary, and I can even load it in my browser but > setting appropriate headers. So I guess for PUT and GET via Accept: > application/octet-stream there is no base64 encoding at all. >
OK. Good. If it were base64'd, you'd see it. > Btw, out of curiosity I have region max file size set to 1GB now, but > what if I set it to say 10G or 50G? Is their significant overhead in > address seeking via HDFS? > You could do that. We don't have much experience running regions of that size. You should for sure pre-split your table on creation if you go this route (See HBaseAdmin API [1]). This method is not available in shell so you'd have to script it or write a little java to do it). St.Ack 1. http://hbase.apache.org/docs/r0.89.20100726/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HBaseAdmin.html#createTable(org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HTableDescriptor, byte[][])
