[KUDU-2308] Add a tool to dump master data in a readable format

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.6.0
• Component/s: ops-tooling
• Assignee: Fengling Wang
• Reporter: William Berkeley
• Created: 16/Feb/18 22:48
• Updated: 30/May/18 17:42

Description

The kudu fs dump cfile command dumps a cfile. This can be used even against the master tablet, except that the useful master tablet columns are hard to read when dumped, being either an integer representing an enum or an encoded protobuf. We should build a specialized tool for dumping the master tablet from the local filesystem, or even remotely.