Hi, We are using Hbase 0.98.6 and Hadoop 2.5.0 - cdh 5.3.5.
We have a couple of questions regarding splits and merge: 1) Since both split and merge are async invocations on the client side, we have a naîve workaround to make it synchronous that is to look at the RS Info Server via an HttpClient checking for pending tasks to be finished. Once all tasks are finished in all RS we issue the next split/merge for the same table. Is there a better way to do it? 2) Regarding merges, we've noticed that some times merge just does not work. We see on the master log that merge request is issued and it forwards it to the corresponding RS but then on the RS nothing happens. We always merge two regions on the same region server. Are there minimum requirements for two regions to be merged? If those requirements are not met, does the merge process exit silently? Thanks in advance, Iván
