Does HBase Remove extra cell-versions from the HFiles during Major Compaction?

Question

I was wondering when does HBase remove the extra cell-versions from the HFile.

Let's say I have a cell that has 10 versions, but I have configured the column family to store only 1 version.

Does HBase remove the unnecessary cell-versions during Major-Compaction?

Answer 1

According to the documentation

Excess versions are removed during major compactions. The number of max versions may need to be increased or decreased depending on application needs.