Raised HBASE-6853 to address this issue. Regards Ram
> -----Original Message----- > From: saint....@gmail.com [mailto:saint....@gmail.com] On Behalf Of > Stack > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 10:07 AM > To: user@hbase.apache.org > Subject: Re: IllegalArgumentException when trying to split an empty > region > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 10:36 AM, John Edstrom > <jedst...@nearinfinity.com> wrote: > > Apologies, this sent before I had finished writing it :X > > > > The stack trace is below, but what we are attempting to do is load > data > > into HBase via MapReduce. When we're doing the load, we write the > HFiles > > using HFileOutputFormat and then bulk load them into HBase. At the > start of > > the MapReduce, we don't have the region splits available to us, so > all our > > data is getting written to a handful of regions. Therefore, we are > > attempting to manually split the regions before the MapReduce job so > that > > the HFiles will be evenly written across many regions. > > > > Any help or guidance would be appreciated. > > > > What version John? > > Could you use this method when you create the table: > http://hbase.apache.org/apidocs/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/client/HBaseAdm > in.html#createTable(org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HTableDescriptor, > byte[][]) > > St.Ack
