Howdy, Yes, you'll need the patch to HRegion/HRegionInterface/HRegionServer/etc to get the region servers to pick up the incremental load, plus various patches to the ways StoreFiles are compared.
I wouldn't attempt a backport to 0.20, personally, unless you want to get down and dirty with the guts of HBase and support your patched version yourself. -Todd On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > Todd the author would know best but without a review of the original > patch, I think it'll work. Try it. You might need to mess w/ the > patch to get it to apply. IIRC, the original patch added a method to > kick the cluster to pick up new hfiles. The mapreduce interfaces are > probably unchanged. I believe there may have been a bug fixed since > original commit. Make sure you pick up this too. > > St.Ack > > > On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Hari Sreekumar > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am runnning hbase v0.20.6. Is ImportTsv and LoadIncrementalHBase sure > to > > work on that version? I see that it is supported only in v0.89.2. But if > I > > simply use the ImportTsv.java and LoadIncremetalHBase.java source files > in > > my version, is there any reason why it wouldn't work for any case? Is > there > > any architectural change that is necessary for these to work well that is > > not present in 0.20.6? > > > > Thanks, > > Hari > > > -- Todd Lipcon Software Engineer, Cloudera
