Can you provide more information, such as: * version of Accumulo * the actual error message you see * any stack trace corresponding to the error message, in full, if possible
The shell command uses an admin utility that is unable to merge metadata tables. However, I believe the metadata table can be merged using the Java API directly, rather than the shell command. Have you tried that? On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 5:47 PM Bulldog20630405 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > over time with table deleting, etc... accumulo.metadata "accumulates" zero > entry splits... currently we have about 25% splits in our accumulo.metadata > with zero entries... when trying to merge using --size 1k --force we get an > error saying we cannot merge the metadata table. > > how do you get rid of these worthless splits? > > the only way i know how to do it is to: > 1) backup all our tables > 2) rebuild accumulo > 3) import all our backuped tables > > however, that seems to be a lot of work! > > any help would be greatly appreciated > >
