[HBASE-28564] Refactor direct interactions of Reference file creations to SFT interface

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.7.0, 3.0.0-beta-2
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Prathyusha
• Reporter: Prathyusha
• Created: 03/May/24 06:10
• Updated: 05/Nov/24 18:10
• Resolved: 04/Nov/24 08:06

Description

HBASE-27826 introduces tracking of Link/Reference files with StoreFileTracker interface and with that, we can have the FileBasedStoreFileTracker implementation to track Link/Reference files only using .filelist file itself and not create actual link/ref files (virtual links).

To support the same, we need to refactor all the direct interactions of Ref/Link file creations to SFT layer and this changes starts off with moving the current Reference file operations/logic to StoreFileTrackerBase.
Post that we should be able to override/evolve the representation to handle Virtual Links.

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-28861 Use hasReferences api of SFT in RegionSplitter
• is related to: HBASE-28863 Create Snapshot V1 reference files using SFT
• relates to: HBASE-27826 Region split and merge time while offline is O(n) with respect to number of store files
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5939
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #6427