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Enis Soztutar resolved HBASE-6818.
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Resolution: Not A Problem
This is not a problem any more after the namespaces change in 0.96, which
renamed .META. table to hbase:meta.
> [WINDOWS] Catalog table .META. violates the naming convention in Window OS
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> Key: HBASE-6818
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6818
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Affects Versions: 0.94.3, 0.95.2
> Reporter: Enis Soztutar
> Assignee: Enis Soztutar
> Labels: windows
> Attachments: hbase-6818-newapproach-0.94_v1.patch
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> There are two catalog tables in HBase, ROOT and .META., whose representitives
> in Windows file system are folders. However, the name of .META. table
> violates the naming convention in Windows, as Windows doesn't support any
> file/directory whose name ending with a period '.'.
> The following are the related description from msdn.microsoft.com for naming
> convention for Windows :
> Do not end a file or directory name with a space or a period. Although the
> underlying file system may support such names, the Windows shell and user
> interface does not. However, it is acceptable to specify a period as the
> first character of a name. For example, ".temp".
> Note that this does not affect hdfs, but only RawLocalFileSystem, and
> single-node local hbase clusters.
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