[ACCUMULO-293] bulk loading causing an consistency check failure

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.5-incubating
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.6, 1.4.0
• Component/s: tserver

Environment

using bulk loading heavily: bulk loader client retry is causing inconsistency

• Assignee: Eric C. Newton
• Reporter: Eric C. Newton
• Created: 09/Jan/12 15:32
• Updated: 13/Jan/12 13:09
• Resolved: 13/Jan/12 13:09

Description

Client requests that a tablet server bulk-load a file. The file is loaded, and then major compacted away. The client also retries the load, which succeeds, but the changes for the major compaction are also making changes. These must conflict because it results in an inconsistency: the bulk file is in the tablet server's list of files, but it is not in the metadata table.

This is probably fixed in the much improved bulk loading code in the 1.4 branch.