[HBASE-8617] Introducing a new config to disable writes during recovering

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.98.0, 0.95.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.98.0, 0.95.2
• Component/s: regionserver
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jeffrey Zhong
• Reporter: Jeffrey Zhong
• Created: 25/May/13 00:28
• Updated: 23/Sep/13 19:22
• Resolved: 20/Jun/13 00:05

Description

In distributedLogReplay(hbase-7006), we allow writes even when a region is in recovering. It may cause undesired behavior when applications(or deployments) already are near its write capacity because distributedLogReplay generates more write traffic to remaining region servers.

The new config "hbase.regionserver.disallow.writes.when.recovering" tries to address the above situation so that recovering won't be affected by application normal write traffic.

The default value of this config is false(meaning allow writes in recovery)

Issue Links

• is related to: HBASE-7006 [MTTR] Improve Region Server Recovery Time - Distributed Log Replay