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Kannan Muthukkaruppan commented on HBASE-2235: ---------------------------------------------- forked off the "META getting inconsistent" issue into its own JIRA (HBASE-2244). > Mechanism that would not have -ROOT- and .META. on same server caused failed > assign of .META. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-2235 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2235 > Project: Hadoop HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: stack > Fix For: 0.20.4, 0.21.0 > > > Here is the short story: > Scenario is a cluster of 3 servers. Server 1. crashed. It was carrying the > .META. We split the logs. .META. is put on the head of the assignment > queue. Server 2. happens to be in a state where it wants to report a split. > The master fails the report because there is no .META. (It fails it ugly with > a NPE). Server 3. checks in and falls into the assignment code > (RegionManager#regionsAwaitingAssignment). In here we have this bit of code > around line #412: > {code} > if (reassigningMetas && isMetaOrRoot && !isSingleServer) { > return regionsToAssign; // dont assign anything to this server. > } > {code} > Because we think this not a single server cluster -- we think there are two > 'live' nodes -- we won't assign meta. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.