Sorry, that was meant for Benjamin. Also, you can test your key order using Bytes.compareTo(a,b). I believe that is what is used internally (correct me if I am wrong).
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Ben Kim <benkimkim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi :) > > I have a hbase table with rowkeys "1" ~ "10000000" with non-meaningful > cells (each row has one cell that's about 10KB) > I figured that all data was in one region, so I ran a command to split row > at "1000000" > then, hbase automatically started splitting the regions which should have > happened before.(this is ok with me ) > > bigger problem is that for some regions start key is larger than end key. > following is the region info after all auto-split and the hbase became > steady. > if you look at the 4th region and 2nd to the last, start key is lareger > than the endkey. > How is this possible? > > NameRegion ServerStart KeyEnd KeyRequests > testtable,,1340843246470.03a98c01a47d448966e299112915c021. hbase-20:60030 > 10000000 0 > testtable,10000000,1340847028444.d85e18bb7597d8bde91b2819b45a1020. > hbase-20:60030 > 10000000 15624273 0 > testtable,15624273,1340847028444.2b3ec263d7810f883b3c0087f059ff15. > hbase-20:60030 > 15624273 21249208 0 > testtable,21249208,1340846924325.e137e808cb7a4d3e52298f17cc5ae1b9. > hbase-20:60030 > 21249208 2687348 0 > testtable,2687348,1340846924325.fc012ac943efd484e4bbe4bacc81c51a. > hbase-20:60030 > 2687348 3249908 0 > testtable,3249908,1340846817015.0aeddf5bf1cdb073c9b2a0ace5bd709f. > hbase-20:60030 > 3249908 3812335 0 > testtable,3812335,1340846817015.142b3619706dbb36d0338b2a587fd719. > hbase-20:60030 > 3812335 43748950 0 > testtable,43748950,1340846705466.dd18534fabb5b06ec345424d4b174176. > hbase-20:60030 > 43748950 49373886 0 > testtable,49373886,1340846705466.db6abcdeb0525c02b5def7fde147fd76. > hbase-20:60030 > 49373886 54999486 0 > testtable,54999486,1340846592668.1907f5f6d601720d429f7cac824a82cb. > hbase-20:60030 > 54999486 60623755 0 > testtable,60623755,1340846592668.1ee94c1f78e7e4dd661d5db4a55d49ed. > hbase-20:60030 > 60623755 66248691 0 > testtable,66248691,1340846484950.6651e3964a3d55f39f36cd268af666a5. > hbase-20:60030 > 66248691 71873625 0 > testtable,71873625,1340846484950.3a7e621d9c866a4e85816de36c18a6e2. > hbase-20:60030 > 71873625 77499226 0 > testtable,77499226,1340846372518.1ce1f0cb47004bac1f3812e768be7749. > hbase-20:60030 > 77499226 83123496 0 > testtable,83123496,1340846372518.0e76f8ff58b3c3a6c87c6e8116213fa6. > hbase-20:60030 > 83123496 88749097 0 > testtable,88749097,1340846264242.fbfb1ecd4dc57d8a77c2457cd91c64c5. > hbase-20:60030 > 88749097 9437403 0 > testtable,9437403,1340846264242.b92bf9b988416b1cb55bdf297654c2a5. > hbase-20:60030 > 9437403 > 0 > > *Benjamin Kim* > *benkimkimben at gmail* >