Sure David. All of the comments on ACCUMULO-3176 prior to Christopher's assertion go over the issue, where it impacts operations, and a current mitigation.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-3176 On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:29 PM, David Medinets <[email protected]> wrote: > Sean, can you please provide a pointer to the discussion of race > conditions in property updates? > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Sean Busbey <[email protected]> wrote: > > -1 > > > > This change alters our public API while not solving the underlying issue > of > > race conditions in property updates. > > > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Christopher <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Committers, this is a consensus vote on whether or not to include > Jenna's > >> patch for ACCUMULO-3176 to the 1.7.0-SNAPSHOT (master) branch. > >> > >> This patch improves the table creation API with the introduction of a > >> NewTableConfiguration object (similar to the pattern for > >> BatchWriterConfig), which allows us to be flexible on improving table > >> creation options in the future without creating many overloaded methods > (as > >> the table creation API has been plagued by in the past). The main goal > of > >> the patch is to allow table properties to be set on a table at the time > of > >> creation, before any tablets are assigned, but it also lays the > foundation > >> for future table creation improvements. Creating initial table > properties > >> was already present in the RPC calls, but not exposed in the API. This > can > >> support a number of use cases. > >> > >> Since an objection was raised by Sean Busbey (and a veto expected), I've > >> initiated this vote in lieu of applying the patch under lazy consensus > so > >> that any veto votes can be justified and addressed here. > >> > >> Note: there are a few bugs in the Mock implementation of this that I've > >> fixed, as well as some minor deprecation warnings and javadoc > improvements > >> I'm adding, please apply your vote under the assumption that those will > be > >> fixed before it will be applied. > >> > >> Please vote in accordance with the bylaws for consensus voting. > >> My vote is +1. > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> -- > >> Christopher L Tubbs II > >> http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Sean > -- Sean
