[HBASE-13556] In assignment, treat system tables as 'special'; assign after hbase:meta and before user-space tables

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Region Assignment
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Michael Stack
• Created: 24/Apr/15 16:29
• Updated: 24/Jun/22 18:39
• Resolved: 28/Jun/17 18:35

Description

Long time ago, back in HBASE-8015, we noted that 'system tables' should be treated special when assigning; they should go out after hbase:meta and before userspace tables and that we should fix this in a follow-on issue (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8408?focusedCommentId=13728267&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-13728267). This is the follow-up issue.

Do system tables like namespace need to keep their own WAL to make it easier recovering and assigning these tables ahead of userspace tables?

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-14190 Assign system tables ahead of user region assignment
• is related to: HBASE-9804 Startup option for holding user table deployment

Sub-Tasks

• Special WAL handling for system tables: Closed