Hi Bryan The size is the size of the store file, if the size go above this you will have a region split. Regarding the size limit, as far I understand this is because of the HFile format, and in 0.92 is it about 20G.
Mikael.S On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Bryan Keller <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, I had pre-created too many regions so most were only half full, > I had a couple of regions that were 4gb. > > On Feb 17, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Bryan Keller wrote: > > > Is the max region file size the size of the data uncompressed or the max > size of the store file? I noticed my store files are ~2.1 gb though I have > the max region size set to 4 gb. This is after a major compaction. Also, is > the max region size 4 gb in HBase 0.90.4 or can it be larger? The docs say > 4 gb but I wanted to confirm that. > > -- Mikael.S
