hi all:
In our shared secure hbase cluster, users often wants to clean all
tested data in their tables. Currently, hbase supports the
truncate method , but its impl is based on disable table-> delete table
-> create table.
There are two drawbacks in this impl.
1, Region split info. Truncate creates a new table with just a region.
It loses the region split info, which is not suitable for pre-split tables.
2, Table ACLs. In the deletion of table, the tables' acls will be
deleted too. So every truncate need to be operated by hbase admin.
Is there any other effective method to clean all data of a table?
What about implement a real truncate method in hmaster which keeps
region split info and table acls?
Thanks
- liushaohui
