Split doesn't handle IOExceptions when creating new region reference files --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HBASE-2461 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2461 Project: Hadoop HBase Issue Type: Bug Components: regionserver Reporter: Todd Lipcon I was testing an HDFS patch which had a bug in it, so it happened to throw an NPE during a split with the following trace: 2010-04-16 19:18:20,727 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.CompactSplitThread: Compaction failed for region TestTable,-1945465867<1271449232310>,1271453785648 java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.enqueueCurrentPacket(DFSClient.java:3124) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.flushInternal(DFSClient.java:3220) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.closeInternal(DFSClient.java:3306) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.close(DFSClient.java:3255) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream$PositionCache.close(FSDataOutputStream.java:61) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream.close(FSDataOutputStream.java:86) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.createNewFile(FileSystem.java:560) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.FSUtils.create(FSUtils.java:95) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.Reference.write(Reference.java:129) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.StoreFile.split(StoreFile.java:498) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion.splitRegion(HRegion.java:682) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.CompactSplitThread.split(CompactSplitThread.java:162) at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.CompactSplitThread.run(CompactSplitThread.java:95) After that, my region was gone, any further writes to it would fail. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira