See http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hbase-region-splitting-and-merging/
First paragraph under 'How Region Splits are implemented' Cheers On Aug 17, 2014, at 5:30 AM, chenwenhui <c77...@163.com> wrote: > The parent region is removed after splitting, but no major compaction to > split the HFile of parent region, will the new two daughter regions refrence > to the same HFile? > If so, assuming a daughter region is moved to another machine via master > balance, whether or not a major compaction will happen and the parent HFile > will be split into two small HFile?
