Thanks ill take a look.. meanwhile, i just decreased the versions for my column families from 3 to 1 and triggered another compaction. does this make hbase delete the previous versions and keep only the latest one?
thanks On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:57 AM, kisalay <[email protected]> wrote: > Vinod, > > U will have to do merge of the regions after the major compact to decrease > the number of regions that you have. You can do either an online or an > offline merge. > > You can pickup the online merge jruby script from the jira > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1621 > > ~Kisalay > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:13 AM, T Vinod Gupta <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > so there is no way to make the regions merge since they are much below > > region max size? > > > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:40 AM, Doug Meil > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > >
