will hbase call for delete old hfiles on hdfs? Since on minor/major compaction that files already merged and after merging generate new hfile. So old hfile will never be use.
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Upendra Yadav <upendra1...@gmail.com>wrote: > Is hbase call delete request for old hfile(storeFile) file if minor/major > compaction happen for them and generate new hfile and store it in hdfs. > > for minor compaction how it will get size of every hfile. lets we have 20 > no. of hfiles for a CF and minor compaction wants to perform. Will it > download all hfile and decide compaction have to do or not. Or it have > in-memory hfile's size information for all hfile. > > >
