[ACCUMULO-18] Consistency of minor compaction and major compaction differ

• Type: Bug
• Status: Reopened
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.5-incubating, 1.4.0
• Component/s: tserver
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Keith Turner
• Created: 07/Oct/11 23:00
• Updated: 08/Dec/14 02:47

Description

Minor compactions add files to !METADATA table and then update the tablets in memory list of files. Major compactions do the opposite, update in memory list then !METADATA. In the case of machine failures, this could lead to a user see the result of major compaction iterators and then not seeing it. Minor compactions do not have this issue. See ACCUMULO-6