[HBASE-27506] Optionally disable sorting directories by size in CleanerChore

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.6.0, 3.0.0-alpha-4, 2.4.16, 2.5.3
• Release Note: Added `hbase.cleaner.directory.sorting` configuration to enable the CleanerChore to sort the subdirectories by consumed space and start the cleaning with the largest subdirectory. Enabled by default.
• Assignee: Peter Somogyi
• Reporter: Peter Somogyi
• Created: 23/Nov/22 15:37
• Updated: 26/Nov/22 20:05
• Resolved: 25/Nov/22 15:01

Description

The CleanerChore computes the size of the directories to start the cleaning with the largest directory first. This computation can take a long time over object stores when the archive directory is huge.

Make it configurable to skip the directory sorting in the CleanerChore.

 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4896