Thanks.
2011/9/24 Stack <[email protected]> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Sheng Chen <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I want to manually split a region into 2 parts of the same size. > > The row key of the regions is based on user-id, which is not distributed > > uniformly. > > I see that in the default split method, the midkey is returned after a > > compaction. > > Can I get the midkey efficiently without compact it? > > > > There is no API to do this exposed to the client. You'd have to go > behind API and access the files in the filesystem directly; see > > http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/io/hfile/HFile.Reader.html > > St.Ack >
