Let me be clear about the amount of testing I did: extremely little. I should also point out that at first I did not appreciate fully the meaning of you earlier comment to Vijay saying "this is a little off" --- I now realize you were in fact saying that Vijay told me to do things backward.
Since my note saying the backward approach worked, two things have happened: (1) someone make a link to it from ( http://hbase.apache.org/notsoquick.html), and (2) Ryan Rowson replied saying, in no uncertain terms, that the backward approach is unreliable. I would not have noticed a reliability issue in the negligible testing I did. Having gotten two opposite opinions, I am now unsure of the truth of the matter. Is there any chance of Vijay and Ryan agreeing? Thanks, Mike Spreitzer SMTP: [email protected], Lotus Notes: Mike Spreitzer/Watson/IBM Office phone: +1-914-784-6424 (IBM T/L 863-) AOL Instant Messaging: M1k3Sprtzr
