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ryan rawson commented on HBASE-1730:
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lets decide on a serialization format to use within ZK, that is NOT hadoop 
writables.  I would vote for JSON since the data is small, and it would be nice 
for it to be human readable without programmatic intervention.

> online schema updates
> ---------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-1730
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1730
>             Project: Hadoop HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Andrew Purtell
>             Fix For: 0.21.0
>
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> We should not need to take a table offline to update HCD or HTD. 
> One option for that is putting HTDs and HCDs up into ZK, with mirror on disk 
> catalog tables to be used only for cold init scenarios, as discussed on IRC. 
> In this scheme, regionservers hosting regions of a table would watch 
> permanent nodes in ZK associated with that table for schema updates and take 
> appropriate actions out of the watcher. In effect, schema updates become 
> another item in the ToDo list.
> {{/hbase/tables/<table-name>/schema}}
> Must be associated with a write locking scheme also handled with ZK 
> primitives to avoid situations where one concurrent update clobbers another. 

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