JM, You can go into the shell -> disable table -> alter table command and chance MAX_FILESIZE(I think that is what it is) this will set it at a per table basis.
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 400M lines table that I merged yesterday into a single > region. I have previously splitted it wrongly. So I would like HBase > to split it its way. > > The issue is that keys are very small in this table and the 400M table > is stored on a <10G HFile. > > I still can use the split option on the HTML interface, but I was > wondering if there was a way to tell to hbase that the max filesize > for this specific table is 1G, but remains 10G for the other tables? > > My goal is to split this table into at least 8 pieces. So worst case, > since I know the number of lines, I can "simply" look at x/8 lines, > note the key, and continue. Then do the split. But is there a more > "automatic" way to do it? > > Thanks, > > JM > -- Kevin O'Dell Customer Operations Engineer, Cloudera
