[HBASE-12686] Failures in split before PONR not clearing the daughter regions from regions in transition during rollback

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.98.9
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0, 0.98.9
• Component/s: Region Assignment
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Vandana Ayyalasomayajula
• Reporter: Rajeshbabu Chintaguntla
• Created: 15/Dec/14 00:26
• Updated: 21/Feb/15 23:49
• Resolved: 16/Dec/14 02:32

Description

If there are any split failures then the both daughter regions left in SPLITTING_NEW transition even after rollback, which will block balancing to happen forever until unless master is restarted.