I think the 0.92 code has a way to promote minor into major compactions, feel free to checkout the code (also it should be present in your logs).
J-D On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:48 PM, yonghu <yongyong...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > My HBase version is 0.92.0. And I find that when I use minor > compaction and major compaction to compact a table, there are no > differences. In the minor compaction, it will remove the deleted cells > and discard the exceeding data versions which should be the task of > major compaction. I wonder if these two compaction can do the same > work, why do we need both? I mean the minor compaction has already > done the job for major compaction, why we still need major compaction? > > Regards! > > Yong
