[HBASE-4944] Optionally verify bulk loaded HFiles

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.90.5, 0.92.0, 0.94.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.90.5
• Component/s: regionserver
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Andrew Kyle Purtell
• Reporter: Andrew Kyle Purtell
• Created: 04/Dec/11 01:48
• Updated: 20/Nov/15 11:54
• Resolved: 05/Dec/11 02:33

Description

We rely on users to produce properly formatted HFiles for bulk import. Attached patch adds an optional code path, toggled by a configuration property, that verifies the HFile under consideration for import is properly sorted. The default maintains the current behavior, which does not scan the file for correctness.

Patch is against trunk but can apply against all active branches.