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Josh Elser commented on ACCUMULO-650: ------------------------------------- Table ids aren't anything more than a hex one-up counter. Also, a clone is lazy in that doesn't make a copy of the data until it changes as compared to the table it was cloned from (as in, both tables will point to the same file on disk right after the clone). Personally, I would expect a user doing something like.. {noformat} > createtable foo foo> desc -u 'full of foo!' foo> insert bar bar bar bar foo> clonetable foo bar bar> desc -u 'full of bar!' {noformat} I guess I envision the common use case would be that someone clone a table, and then want to update the description with why they cloned it. Mostly thinking out loud here too :) > Add table descriptions > ---------------------- > > Key: ACCUMULO-650 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-650 > Project: Accumulo > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: master > Reporter: John Vines > Assignee: Kevin Faro > > We should add a table description field, probably in zookeeper, to store an > optional field end users can use to provide their relevant information on the > table. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira