I took a look through the code and don't see any explicit removes and looking through history of changes to the file, I don't see any change of substance.
Can you figure what is doing the delete? At what stage? Is it as completebulkload runs? St.Ack On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Adam Phelps <[email protected]> wrote: > We were using a backup scheme for our system where we have map-reduce jobs > generating HFiles, which we then loaded using LoadIncrementalHFiles before > making a remote copy of them using distcp. > > However we just upgraded hbase (we're using cloudera's package, so we went > from CDH3B4 to CDH3U0, both of which are versions of 0.90.1), and discovered > that the HFiles now get deleted by the load operation. Is this a recent > change? Is there a configuration variable to revert this behavior? > > We can work around it by doing the copy before the load, but that is less > than optimal in our scenario as we'd prefer to have quicker access to the > data in HBase. > > - Adam >
