On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Ramkrishna S Vasudevan <[email protected]> wrote: > What you say is when the master sees it in OPENED state. But if the META > was in OPENING state in zk and that time the master goes down. Now when the > master comes up again then the master will try to process the OPENING state. > > regionsInTransition.put(encodedRegionName, new RegionState( > regionInfo, RegionState.State.OPENING, > data.getStamp(), data.getOrigin())); > It will add the RIT as OPENING in master's memory and will wait for the > timeout monitor to deduct the same. > > That's why I thought we need not make the META region to wait for so long in > master restart/switch scenario. Correct me if am wrong. >
if you see possibility for cutting down the time a .META. is offline, please file an issue Ram. If you have a patch all the better. I'm not following what you are referring to exactly -- I have a notion -- but I'm pretty sure its me being extra thick rather than your explanation above. Good on you Ram, St.Ack
