Are the options 'firstrow' and 'lastrow' what you want? I have noticed that the '_balancedSplit' file was still there, so ... you must got this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-7138
On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Cheng Su <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, all > > My cluster uses hbase 0.92.0. > I'm now trying to split some big regions manually. (I configured > region file size to 20G) > I ran it like this: > hbase org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.RegionSplitter statistic_visit1 -r -o 2 > > Before I split, the table statistic_visit1 has only one region: > [hadoop@hadoop01 ~]$ hadoop dfs -du /hbase/statistic_visit1 > Found 3 items > 5161 > hdfs://hadoop01:51001/hbase/statistic_visit1/.tableinfo.0000000001 > 0 hdfs://hadoop01:51001/hbase/statistic_visit1/.tmp > 58234791267 > hdfs://hadoop01:51001/hbase/statistic_visit1/e15d089574adaeacaf75fd8e1277ce2d > > And after the split is done, > [hadoop@hadoop01 ~]$ hadoop dfs -du /hbase/statistic_visit1 > Found 6 items > 5161 > hdfs://hadoop01:51001/hbase/statistic_visit1/.tableinfo.0000000001 > 0 hdfs://hadoop01:51001/hbase/statistic_visit1/.tmp > 58234783527 > hdfs://hadoop01:51001/hbase/statistic_visit1/0eae290663e59659fc728333d0b18b47 > 287 > hdfs://hadoop01:51001/hbase/statistic_visit1/7865a928112751bcf27fce2cc8304441 > 80 hdfs://hadoop01:51001/hbase/statistic_visit1/_balancedSplit > 58234787479 > hdfs://hadoop01:51001/hbase/statistic_visit1/e15d089574adaeacaf75fd8e1277ce2d > > Does the split result look fine? And how can I get more regions? > > And is there any danger, if I resize the region file size setting > to a smaller value? (like 5G) > > Thanks. > -- > > Regards, > Cheng Su -- Davey Yan
