[HBASE-7876] Got exception when manually triggers a split on an empty region

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.95.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.98.0, 0.94.6, 0.95.0
• Component/s: regionserver
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change
• Release Note: Regions with no store files used to exit with an exception when splits are attempted. With this fix applied, empty regions are split into two empty regions.
• Assignee: Wei Xue
• Reporter: Wei Xue
• Created: 19/Feb/13 03:09
• Updated: 12/Apr/13 20:30
• Resolved: 14/Mar/13 18:16

Description

We should allow a region to split successfully even if it does not yet have storefiles.

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-8262 Add testcase to verify HBASE-7876's empty region split semantics change