[HBASE-1818] HFile code review and refinement

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.20.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.20.1, 0.90.0
• Component/s: io
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Tags: HFile
• Assignee: Schubert Zhang
• Reporter: Schubert Zhang
• Created: 07/Sep/09 14:59
• Updated: 20/Nov/15 13:01
• Resolved: 16/Sep/09 02:45

Description

HFile is a good mimic of Google's SSTable file format. And we want HFile to become a common file format of hadoop in the near future.
We will review the code of HFile and record the comments here, and then provide fixed patch after the review.