On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Todd Lipcon <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:19 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > Looking at the diff of HBASE-2461, I think the difference is that we used to > close the region and then do the writes into META for the new info. Since > the region was already marked closed by the time we were writing, we > wouldn't have handlers stuck on the lock. Post-HBASE-2461, the META writes > happen under the lock before the region gets marked closed. >
This would explain it. New axiom: "Never hold a lock while trying to talk to another server" Lets do new RC (as suggested up on IRC). St.Ack
