Currently, rs doesn't watch the znode. RS cancels ongoing open after master tells it so.
Jimmy On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Jimmy Xiang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If this region server happens to be hot, it may take a while to open >> it. If we don't time it out, the server may be even hotter. If the >> region server could not open it here, other region servers may not be >> able to open it either. >> > > > I suppose the master can still 'timeout' the open if the RS is watching the > znode for the region it is trying to open. The RS will notice that master > has assumed control in a callback and can then cancel any ongoing open. > > St.Ack
