Major compactions don't change the number of regions.
On 1/12/12 1:35 PM, "T Vinod Gupta" <[email protected]> wrote: >this is probably a rookie question. but my understanding is that if i >increase the region max file size and then initiate major compaction >manually, the number of regions should ideally go down by the factor by >which i increased the region max file size. isn't that true? im not seeing >that happening. ofcourse, my compaction is still underway - so i don't >know >if ill see region count decrease at the very end of it. major compaction >does do region merging right? > >thanks
