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Jerry He commented on HBASE-8760:
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Hi, Matteo
I agree your patch is probably the best we can do for now.
We can probably do more in HBASE-7987 to have a new solution for this problem.
For example, include the parent hfiles in the manifest file but add
indicators/markers
to tell they are meant to be parent hfiles.
> possible loss of data in snapshot taken after region split
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HBASE-8760
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8760
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: snapshots
> Affects Versions: 0.94.8, 0.95.1
> Reporter: Jerry He
> Fix For: 0.98.0, 0.95.2, 0.94.12
>
> Attachments: HBase-8760-0.94.8.patch, HBase-8760-0.94.8-v1.patch,
> HBASE-8760-thz-v0.patch
>
>
> Right after a region split but before the daughter regions are compacted, we
> have two daughter regions containing Reference files to the parent hfiles.
> If we take snapshot right at the moment, the snapshot will succeed, but it
> will only contain the daughter Reference files. Since there is no hold on the
> parent hfiles, they will be deleted by the HFile Cleaner after they are no
> longer needed by the daughter regions soon after.
> A minimum we need to do is the keep these parent hfiles from being deleted.
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