I hope each region can be 10GB in size, so I set the property *hbase.hregion.max.filesize* as 10737418240, which is 10GB. Then I restarted the HBase cluster.
To check whether this property works, I created a new table and wrote a lot of records into it. However, when I checked the size of the regions of that table, I found that each region is far smaller than 10GB. Actually, regions of that table are about 3GB in size. I guess there are other factors that would trigger a region split, albeit I set the property *hbase.hregion.max.filesize* as 10GB. Am I right ? Thanks. Tao
