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Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:27:51 -0800
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Subject: Re: 2 differents hbase.hregion.max.filesize at the same time?
From: "Kevin O'dell" <kevin.odell@cloudera.com>
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JM,

  You can go into the shell -> disable table -> alter table command and
chance MAX_FILESIZE(I think that is what it is) this will set it at a per
table basis.

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari <
jean-marc@spaggiari.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a 400M lines table that I merged yesterday into a single
> region. I have previously splitted it wrongly. So I would like HBase
> to split it its way.
>
> The issue is that keys are very small in this table and the 400M table
> is stored on a <10G HFile.
>
> I still can use the split option on the HTML interface, but I was
> wondering if there was a way to tell to hbase that the max filesize
> for this specific table is 1G, but remains 10G for the other tables?
>
> My goal is to split this table into at least 8 pieces. So worst case,
> since I know the number of lines, I can "simply" look at x/8 lines,
> note the key, and continue. Then do the split. But is there a more
> "automatic" way to do it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> JM
>


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