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Sean Busbey commented on HBASE-22285: ------------------------------------- bq. Same comment re: this being a question for the release manager. This is a new feature, so I don't think it's appropriate for a patch release. to reinforce this, no new features in maintenance releases please. if we need to get new features out faster we should just release minor releases at a more regular cadence. > A normalizer which merges very small size regions with adjacent > regions.(MergeToNormalize) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HBASE-22285 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-22285 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: master > Reporter: Aman Poonia > Assignee: Aman Poonia > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 3.0.0-alpha-1, 2.3.0 > > > There are scenarios where we have seen around 5% of total regions with a size > of 0 bytes and another 5-6 % regions with size in a few bytes. These kinds of > regions increase with time considering we have TTL over the rows. > After exploring the option of RegionNormalizer and doing some quick runs we > found that that is not suitable considering it also splits the regions and > merges to normalize. What we really want is to split as per Split policy and > merge very small regions with adjacent regions to make sure we reduce 0-byte > regions. > We can plugin this normalizer using the property > "hbase.master.normalizer.class" -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)