[HBASE-22690] Deprecate / Remove OfflineMetaRepair in hbase-2+

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha-1, 2.3.0, 2.0.6, 2.2.1, 2.1.6
• Component/s: hbck2
• Labels: hbck2
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change, Reviewed

Release Note

OfflineMetaRepair is no longer supported in HBase-2+. Please refer to https://hbase.apache.org/book.html#HBCK2

This tool is deprecated in 2.x and will be removed in 3.0.

• Assignee: Toshihiro Suzuki
• Reporter: Toshihiro Suzuki
• Created: 13/Jul/19 17:59
• Updated: 23/Jul/19 07:34
• Resolved: 23/Jul/19 01:31

Description

As discussed in the following thread, we can deprecate / remove OfflineMetaRepair.
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f122efdc79be541d678e22cf8cf573352ab468159596d820c38bf84b@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E

Maybe we can deprecate in 2.x and remove in 3.0.

Issue Links

• relates to: HBASE-22680 [HBCK2] OfflineMetaRepair for hbase2/hbck2
• relates to: HBASE-21665 OfflineMetaRepair tool fails with NPE
• relates to: HBASE-22567 [HBCK2] Add new methods for dealing with missing regions in META while Master is online
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #380
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #381