[HBASE-7480] Explicit message for not allowed snapshot on meta tables

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.95.0
• Component/s: Client, master, regionserver, snapshots, Zookeeper
• Assignee: Matteo Bertozzi
• Reporter: Matteo Bertozzi
• Created: 02/Jan/13 22:50
• Updated: 23/Sep/13 18:30
• Resolved: 11/Jan/13 18:09

Description

taking a snapshot of ROOT or .META. now results in something like this:

Illegal first character <46> at 0. User-space table names can only start with 'word characters': i.e. [a-zA-Z_0-9]

changing the message in something more human readable to inform that meta table are not supported