Hi Austin, Which version are you using? Why not just using the shell merge command?
JMS Le jeu. 30 août 2018 à 15:41, Austin Heyne <ahe...@ccri.com> a écrit : > We're currently sitting at a very high number of regions due to an > initially poor value for hbase.regionserver.regionSplitLimit and would > like to reign in our region count. Additionally, we have a > spatio-temporal key structure and our region pre-splitting was done > evenly, without regard to the spatial distribution of our data and thus > have a lot of small and empty regions we'd like to clean up. I've found > the HMerge class [1], and it seems it would do something reasonable for > our used case. However, it's marked as Private and doesn't seem to be > used anywhere so I thought I'd ask if anyone knows the status of this > class and how safe it is. > > Thanks, > Austin > > [1] > > https://github.com/apache/hbase/blob/branch-1.4/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/HMerge.java > >
