Just a thought, will forcing a major compaction take care of this? Merging smaller tablets and deleting empty ones?
Best regards, Yamini Joshi On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Dickson, Matt MR < [email protected]> wrote: > *UNOFFICIAL* > I have a table that has evolved to have 1.07T tablets and I fairly > confident a large portion of these are now empty or very small. I'd like > to merge smaller tablets and delete empty tablets, is there a smart way to > do this? > > My thought was to query the metadata table for all tablets under a > certain size for the table and then merge these tablets. > > Is the first number in thevalue the size of the tablet, ie > > > scan -b 1xk -e 1xk\xff -c file > 1xk;34234 file:hdfs//name/accumulo/tables/1xk/t-er23423/M423432.rf [] > *213134*,234234 > > Also, are there any side effects of this that I need to be aware of when > doing this on a massive table? > > Thanks in advance, > Matt >
