[HBASE-5986] Clients can see holes in the META table when regions are being split

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.92.1, 0.94.1, 0.95.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.94.1, 0.95.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Enis Soztutar
• Reporter: Enis Soztutar
• Created: 10/May/12 23:47
• Updated: 26/Feb/13 08:15
• Resolved: 26/May/12 15:24

Description

We found this issue when running large scale ingestion tests for HBASE-5754. The problem is that the .META. table updates are not atomic while splitting a region. In SplitTransaction, there is a time lap between the marking the parent offline, and adding of daughters to the META table. This can result in clients using MetaScanner, of HTable.getStartEndKeys (used by the TableInputFormat) missing regions which are made just offline, but the daughters are not added yet.

This is also related to HBASE-4335.

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-5754 data lost with gora continuous ingest test (goraci)