On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Cosmin Lehene <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Having enough info to regenerate the .META. table would be indeed useful.
I don't think it would be too hard to do. We'll try and have something in place for 0.20.0. > I wonder if it wouldn't make sense to keep regular snapshots of .META. > Table as a backup - but I guess this something that the "fsck" tool would > take care of, right? The shell allows you force a flush now on a table or individual region. Could have a cron script invoke the flush then do a copy of the .META. content that is in hdfs. Better would be a working sync/flush in hdfs (smile). I'm glad you got stuff running again Cosmin. St.Ack
