Hi That is not needed, infact it has been fixed in the latest trunk version as part of HBASE-6327.
We can back port the issue I feel. Thanks for bringing this into notice. Regards Ram > -----Original Message----- > From: jlei liu [mailto:liulei...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 2:39 PM > To: user@hbase.apache.org > Subject: When I create one new table, there is .oldlogs dir in region > dir of the table > > I use hbase0.94.1 version. > > When I create one new table, there is .oldlogs dir in region dir of > the > table, example: > drwxr-xr-x - musa.ll supergroup 0 2012-09-27 16:41 > /hbase0.94.1/scantable1/0a0ff04f7b3db8b898a1312cc672ab24/.oldlogs > -rw-r--r-- 3 musa.ll supergroup 134 2012-09-27 16:41 > /hbase0.94.1/scantable1/0a0ff04f7b3db8b898a1312cc672ab24/.oldlogs/hlog. > 1348735282237 > > HLogs should be stored in "/hbase.rootdir +/<host>,<port>,<startcode>/ > <host>%2C <port>%2C<startcode>.<timestamp>" dir, and old HLogs should > be > stored in "/hbase.rootdir/.oldlogs" dir. Why does the region dir also > contain .oldlogs dir? > > Thanks, > > LiuLei