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[jira] Commented: (HBASE-696) Make bloomfilter true/false and self-sizing

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Jim Kellerman commented on HBASE-696:
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> Bryan Duxbury - 30/Jun/08 02:56 PM
> I thought it might be useful to point out that the bloom filter wouldn't really be used for
> scanning, either, since you're already going to have locality proceeding through the file
> as you scan. There wouldn't be much point in checking if a storefile has the next row or
> not. 

You are quite right. bloomfilters have little to do with scanners. Their primary use is for get


> Make bloomfilter true/false and self-sizing
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>
>                 Key: HBASE-696
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-696
>             Project: Hadoop HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: stack
>             Fix For: 0.2.0
>
>
> Remove bloomfilter options.  Only one bloomfilter type makes sense in hbase context.  Also, make bloomfilter self-sizing; you know size when flushing.
> Putting in 0.2 for now because its API change (for the simpler).  We can punt later.

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