Hi folks- In Compression.java there is this comment…
/** * Compression algorithms. The ordinal of these cannot change or else you * risk breaking all existing HFiles out there. Even the ones that are * not compressed! (They use the NONE algorithm) */ public static enum Algorithm { … which makes the prospect of adding new instances slightly terrifying. Has anybody considered changing the constructor to supply an ordinal value, and that way if anybody adds a custom one they could supply a value like 9999999 or something hopefully never used by HBase? Doug Meil Chief Software Architect, Explorys doug.m...@explorys.com