hbase-user mailing list archives

On May 31, Ferdy Galema wrote:
>You can use the merge tool to combine adjacent regions. It requires a 
>bit of manual work because you need to specify the regions by hand. The 
>cluster also needs to be offline (I recommend to keep zookeeper running 
>though). Check if merging succeeded with the hbck tool.

hbase noob question: do compactions (major/minor) always work in the
scope of a region but they don't do region merges?