[HBASE-15981] Stripe and Date-tiered compactions inaccurately suggest disabling table in docs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: documentation
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Removes reference to disabling table in docs for stripe and date-tiered compactions
• Assignee: Bryan Beaudreault
• Reporter: Bryan Beaudreault
• Created: 07/Jun/16 19:30
• Updated: 08/Jun/16 04:33
• Resolved: 07/Jun/16 20:11

Description

hbase.online.schema.update.enable is set to true in later versions of HBase. However, the documentation in the book around configuration Stripe and Date-tiered compactions instruct the user to disable a table before changing configuration. According to Enis on the user list, this is not necessary:

Disabling the table should not be needed. From the stripe compaction
perspective, deploying this in a disabled table versus in an online alter
table is not different at all. The "hbase.online.schema.update.enable"
property was fixing some possible race conditions that were fixed long time
ago.

We should update the book to remove this inaccurate messaging.

Issue Links

• relates to: HBASE-15989 Remove hbase.online.schema.update.enable