On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:06 AM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <dlie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Got it. This must be the reason. Cause it is a laugh check, and i do > see 6 regions for 40 rows so it can span them, although i can't > confirm it for sure.
Run a scan from the shell: hbase> scan 'YOUR_TABLE' ... and you should see the setup of the scanner as it crosses regions (You may have to exit shell, enable logging for the client in log4j.properties, and then retry in the shell -- but I believe it on by default). > Is there a way to set max # of regions per table? I guess the method > in the manual is to set max region size. Which means i probably need > to re-create the table with one region to get back to 1 region? or > maybe there's a way to get it back to one region without recreating > it, such as major compaction? > If 40 rows in it, just disable and drop it and then recreate. There is http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbase.regionserver.regionSplitLimit for setting maximum count of regions. St.Ack
