What happens after a compaction is run on the table?
> From: vidhy...@yahoo-inc.com
> To: hbase-u...@hadoop.apache.org
> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:35:35 -0700
> Subject: Unassigned holes in tables
>
> This must possibly be a common occurrence but we noticed through hbck some
> regions (5 out of 20000) that were left unassigned and the master doing
> nothing about it. The thing to be noted is that all these regions seem to be
> daughter regions after a split (all of them had the regioninfo name in META
> table called splitB).
>
> We had been very conservative about splits all this while but we had to turn
> them on due to region skews. (Still, the splits are far and few though: at
> most a handful a day) We use HBase 0.90.0 for now.
>
> The last few times this happened, we had restarted HBAse but it isn't a
> sustainable solution. Restarting the master perhaps, so as to trigger an
> assignment?
>
> V
