I don't know of a good way Ted? It looks like the table directory timestamp gets updated per change in its subdirs. There's no 'creation' time in FileStatus. Maybe someone else has an idea.
St.Ack On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Ted Yu <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > How do I determine the creation time of table given its name ? > > I know it's not easy to get last modification time of a table. So I want to > see if I can get creation time - checking the timestamp in region name(s) ? > > Thanks >
