Index: src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/SequenceFileLogWriter.java =================================================================== --- src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/SequenceFileLogWriter.java (revision 1325551) +++ src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/regionserver/wal/SequenceFileLogWriter.java (working copy) @@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ public void init(FileSystem fs, Path path, Configuration conf) throws IOException { // Should we do our custom WAL compression? - boolean compress = conf.getBoolean(HConstants.ENABLE_WAL_COMPRESSION, false); + boolean compress = conf.getBoolean(HConstants.ENABLE_WAL_COMPRESSION, true); if (compress) { try { if (this.compressionContext == null) {