[HBASE-10145] Table creation should proceed in the presence of a stale znode

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Lars Hofhansl
• Created: 12/Dec/13 21:45
• Updated: 17/Jun/22 04:53
• Resolved: 07/Apr/17 00:07

Description

HBASE-7600 fixed a race condition where concurrent attempts to create the same table could succeed.
An unfortunate side effect is that it is now impossible to create a table as long as the table's znode is around, which is an issue when a cluster was wiped at the HDFS level.

Minor issue as we have discussed this many times before, but it ought to be possible to check whether the table directory exists and if not either create it or remove the corresponding znode.

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-7600 TestAdmin.testCreateBadTables is failing occasionally