Thank you Doug, for the hard work!

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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Doug Judd <[email protected]> wrote:

> We've found part of the problem.  In an attempt to fix a RangeServer
> shutdown hang problem, I made a change to the CommitLog destructor to close
> the commit log fragment asynchronously.  This introduced a race condition
> since the CommitLog class is also used for the split log and under certain
> conditions, the log would be read by the receiving range server _before_ the
> asynchronous close operation completed.  The split log would appear to be
> empty, even though it contained valid commits, which caused all of those
> commits to disappear.
>
> Unfortunately, we've also noticed a similar symptom (though much more
> infrequently), in a prior commit.  We've built tools to diagnose the problem
> and we're running tests this weekend.  We should have some more results by
> Monday.  My apologies to those of you who have been waiting on this release.
>  We're on this 100% and are doing everything we can to get to the bottom of
> it as soon as possible.
>
> - Doug
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Doug Judd <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This is an update on the status of the 0.9.5.0 pre-release.  This release
>> is aimed at fixing the stability problems that have been reported under
>> certain scenarios.  It has involved some major code changes, including a
>> re-write of the client scanner logic and a complete overhaul of the master.
>>  We're essentially "code complete" on the release, but a showstopper bug
>> (data loss) turned up in our final testing.  We're in the process of
>> isolating the commit that introduced the bug, but it's slow going, taking
>> about 2-4 hours to reproduce.  We'll keep you updated on our progress.
>>
>> - Doug
>>
>>
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