https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Is-there-a-way-to-find-the-completion-of-major-compaction/m-p/183469#M145631 <P>After polling for some time, if the state returns MAJOR, shall we confirm major compaction is completed?.</P><P><EM>admin.majorCompact(TableName.valueOf("testTable"));</EM></P><P><EM>Thread.sleep("sometime");</EM></P><P><EM>CompactionState state=admin.getCompactionState("testTable");</EM></P><P><EM>if(state.equals(CompactionState.MAJOR))</EM></P><P><EM>{ //Major compaction is completed }</EM></P><P>This code always returns state as NONE</P> Wed, 13 Sep 2017 15:26:28 GMT vishnu_p 2017-09-13T15:26:28Z