How HBase partitions table across regionservers?

Question

Please tell me how HBase partitions table across regionservers.

For example, let\'s say my row keys are integers from 0 to 10M and I have 10 regionservers.
Doe

Answer 1

Option hbase.hregion.max.filesize which is by default 256MB sets max region size, after reaching this limit region is split. This means, that my data will be stored in multiple regions of 256MB and possibly one smaller.
So

I would like my row key to be timestamp, but I case most queries would apply to latest dates, all queries would be processed by only one regionserver, is it true?

This is not true, because latest data will be also split in regions of size 256MB and stored on different regionservers.