Hi, Is there any way to rebuild the .META. Table with information in HDFS?
Long story short, the namenode ran out of disk and crashed and we couldn't have it load the edits.new file at startup (the edits.new file seemed corrupted and it failed to read some Long value) so we removed the edits.new file. Apparently the edits file had 10 - 15 entries. Some edit data on -ROOT-, some edit data on .META., some data on a table compaction (comapction.dir) and some data on some hbase logs. Only last entry seem to be bogus, having almost a megabyte of trailing zeroes. After renaming edits.new HDFS started ok and HBase data is present. However when we started Hbase one table was missing entirely and one table was empty. The HBase master report shows Regions On FS: 94, but the report on region servers shows only 10 regions on all the region servers. Is there any way to cleanup hbase and rebuild the .META. table from HDFS? This would be ok even if it implies throwing up some data. If we would clean the edits.new file and restart HDFS or if we would manually apply the edits would that still make consistent changes to HBase data? Thanks, Cosmin
