On Aug 25, 2012, at 2:57 PM, lars hofhansl wrote:

> Each column family is its own store. All stores are flushed together, so have 
> many add overhead (especially if a few tend to hold a lot of data, but the 
> others don't, leading to very many small store files that need to be 
> compacted).

If there are no writes at all to a CF, will a flush still create a new store 
file?  I’m thinking about a case where one CF is basically write-once and 
another CF gets frequent updates.

Thanks.
joe

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