[HBASE-7240] Cleanup old snapshots on start

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: hbase-6055
• Fix Version/s: 0.95.0
• Component/s: Client, master, regionserver, snapshots, Zookeeper
• Assignee: Jesse Yates
• Reporter: Jesse Yates
• Created: 29/Nov/12 21:15
• Updated: 23/Sep/13 18:31
• Resolved: 18/Dec/12 18:52

Description

If the master is hard stopped (i.e. kill -9), the snapshot handler or SnapshotManager may not have a chance to cleanup after the snapshot, leaving extraneous files in the working snapshot directory (/hbase/.snapshot/.tmp directory).