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Jean-Daniel Cryans commented on HBASE-9888:
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bq. So,are you suggesting implementing a custom ReplicationSource to seek into
the current WAL to find the edit with writeTime > sourceCreationTimestamp?
It wouldn't be custom, it'd be the default behavior.
> HBase replicates edits written before the replication peer is created
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> Key: HBASE-9888
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-9888
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Dave Latham
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> When creating a new replication peer the ReplicationSourceManager enqueues
> the currently open HLog to the ReplicationSource to ship to the destination
> cluster. The ReplicationSource starts at the beginning of the HLog and ships
> over any pre-existing writes.
> A workaround is to roll all the HLogs before enabling replication.
> A little background for how it affected us - we were migrating one cluster in
> a master-master pair. I.e. transitioning from A <\-> B to B <-> C. After
> shutting down writes from A -> B we enabled writes from C -> B. However,
> this replicated some earlier writes that were in C's HLogs that had
> originated in A. Since we were running a version of HBase before HBASE-7709
> those writes then got caught in a infinite replication cycle and bringing
> down region servers OOM because of HBASE-9865.
> However, in general, if one wants to manage what data gets replicated, one
> wouldn't expect that potentially very old writes would be included when
> setting up a new replication link.
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