[HBASE-6067] HBase won't start when hbase.rootdir uses ViewFileSystem

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.94.1, 0.95.0
• Component/s: regionserver
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Ted Yu
• Reporter: Eli Collins
• Created: 22/May/12 22:57
• Updated: 26/Apr/13 19:23
• Resolved: 04/Jun/12 19:27

Description

HBase currently doesn't work with HDFS federation (hbase.rootdir with a client that uses viewfs) because HLog#init uses FileSystem#getDefaultBlockSize and getDefaultReplication. These throw an exception because there is no default filesystem in a viewfs client so there's no way to determine a default block size or replication factor. They could use the versions of these methods that take a path, however these were introduced in HADOOP-8014 and are not yet available in Hadoop 1.x.

Issue Links

• is related to: FLUME-2027 Check for default replication fails on federated cluster in hdfs sink
• relates to: HADOOP-8422 Deprecate FileSystem#getDefault* and getServerDefault methods that don't take a Path argument