On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:54 AM, lars hofhansl <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks J-D, that's exactly what I was looking.I guess I was expecting that a > manual major compaction would imply a cache flush. Should it? >
It does not. On the other hand, we have yet to implement a bigtable optimization where a flush is merged with a storefile; i.e. a new file is written where the source is the in-memory flushed edits and a storefile that was already in the filesystem (the original storefile is dropped on flush completion) St.Ack
