we are currently using 1.9.3; however will probably upgrade to the new 1.10 soon now that it is released (has some nice bug fixes)
yes, i was using the shell; however, i have an admin tool which wraps the api... i will look into that... from what i have seen from the api; you can merge using begin and end splits; however, you cannot use size and force (unless you used the util merge command) questions: 1) will the utility merge command work with metadata table? 2) is there anything we should do before running the merge from the api? (e.g. should we stop all ingest and query before running metadata merge?) 3) general question; why does the shell not allow it; when it is not an issue with the metadata table? 4) how can be update the documentation to explain this? thanx On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 3:32 AM Christopher <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > >
