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From: Jonathan Hsieh <jon@cloudera.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2012 12:44:56 -0700
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Subject: Re: Can manually remove HFiles (similar to bulk import,
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You could set your ttls and trigger a major compaction ...

Or, (this is pretty advanced) you can probably do it without taking down
RS's by:
1) closing the region in the hbase shell
2) deleting the file in the shell
3) reopening the region in the hbase shell

Jon.

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Alex Baranau <alex.baranov.v@gmail.com>wrote:

> Heh, this is what I want to avoid actually: restarting RSs.
>
> Alex Baranau
> ------
> Sematext :: http://blog.sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Hadoop - HBase
>
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Amandeep Khurana <amansk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I _think_ you should be able to do it and be just fine but you'll need to
> > shut down the region servers before you remove and start them back up
> after
> > you are done. Someone else closer to the internals can confirm/deny this.
> >
> >
> > On Monday, July 9, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Alex Baranau wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I wonder, for purging old data, if I'm OK with "remove all StoreFiles
> > which
> > > are older than ..." way, can I do that? To me it seems like this can
> be a
> > > very effective way to remove old data, similar to fast bulk import
> > > functionality, but for deletion.
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > >
> > > Alex Baranau
> > > ------
> > > Sematext :: http://blog.sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Hadoop -
> HBase
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>


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// Jonathan Hsieh (shay)
// Software Engineer, Cloudera
// jon@cloudera.com

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