I have a hbase table with with a wide row almost 2K columns per row. Each KV size is approx 2.1KB I have populated this table with generated hfiles using a MR job. There are no write or mutate operations performed on this table.
So Once I am done with major compaction on this table, ideally we should not require another major or minor compaction if table is not modified. What I observe is that if I make some configuration change that need to restart my hbase service, then after restart my compaction on the table is gone. And if I start major compaction on the table again, It takes again a long to compact the table. Is this expected behavior? I am curious what causes the major compaction to take a long time if nothing has changed on the table. I would really appreciate any help. Thanks Apratim
