On Apr 4, 2011, at 10:48 AM, tsuna wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: >> Want to make an issue to change it Joe? (As Ryan says, no >> justification that I remember other than that is how its always been). > > Personally I think that 3 is a good reasonable default. Maybe most > people don't really need 3 versions, but most of the time I'm sure > they can pay for it, they won't even notice. It can be a life-saver > after you screw up to be able to get back to older versions... If you > truly have a "big data" problem (few people really do), then you > probably will know what you're doing, and you'll tune the number of > versions appropriately for your needs.
I've created HBASE-3730 so the pros and cons can be discussed in the JIRA. joe
