Hi, We have a bunch on tables in our HBase cluster. We have a script which makes sure all of them get Major Compacted once every 2 days. There are 2 things I'm observing
1) Table X has not updated in a month. We have not inserted, updated or deleted data. However, it still major compacts every 2 days. All the regions in this table have only 1 store file. 2) Table Y has a few regions where the rowkey is essentially a timestamp. So, we only write to 1 region at a time. Over time, the region splits, and then we write the one of the split regions. Now, whenever we major compact the table, all regions get major compacted. Only 1 region has more than 1 store file, every other region has exactly once. Is there a way to avoid compaction of regions that have not changed? We are using HBase 0.94.11 -- Regards, Premal Shah.
