Thanks, Andy, we will try that. -Andreas.
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Andrew Purtell <[email protected]>wrote: > > From: Andreas Neumann <[email protected]> > > Actually I want compactions > > Fair enough but this doesn't involve META or append, I mentioned it as an > aside. > > > think I also want splits, because the data is going to grow > > over time. > > Examine that assumption. If you have sufficient distribution of > preallocated regions over the cluster (according to the space of keys of the > application) then the accumulation of additional regions will probably just > make things slower. > > Anyway... > > > Regarding the alternative HLog implementation, yes I was > > thinking of writing and closing the file for every WAL write. > > But if the only writes are caused by tables structure changes > > such as splits and reassignment > > Modify HLog code to always roll after a META edit and you should be good. > > - Andy > > >
