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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:50:18 +0530
From: Ramkrishna S Vasudevan <ramakrishnas@huawei.com>
Subject: RE: Suggest to add a choice of using round-robin assignment on
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Hi

Yes this will be very useful.  Currently we have tweaked our client code so
that the region assignment is evenly distributed which may not work always.

Regards
Ram 


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From: Ted Yu [mailto:yuzhihong@gmail.com] 
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Subject: Re: Suggest to add a choice of using round-robin assignment on
enable-table

I think it makes sense.
Do you mind logging a JIRA ?

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:15 PM, bijieshan <bijieshan@huawei.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Under some scenarios, we use the function of disable/enable HTable. 
> But currently, enable HTable using the random-assignment. We hope all 
> the regions show a better distribution, no matter how many regions and 
> how many regionservers.
>
> So I suggest to add a choice of using round-robin assignment on 
> enable-table.
>
> Does this seem reasonable?
>
> Thanks,
> Jieshan
>