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Sean Busbey updated HBASE-10378:
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Release Note:
HBase internals for the write ahead log have been refactored. Advanced users of
HBase should be aware of the following changes.
- The command for analyzing write ahead logs has been renamed from 'hlog' to
'wal'. The old usage is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.
- Some utility methods in the HBaseTesetingUtility related to testing
write-ahead-logs were changed in incompatible ways. No functionality has been
removed, but method names and arguments have changed. See the javadoc for
HBaseTestingUtility for details.
- The labeling of server metrics on the region server status pages changed.
Previously, the number of backing files for the write ahead log was labeled
'Num. HLog Files'. If you wish to see this statistic now, please look for the
label 'Num. WAL Files.' If you rely on JMX for these metrics, their location
has not changed.
Adding release notes in progress.
> Divide HLog interface into User and Implementor specific interfaces
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> Key: HBASE-10378
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-10378
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: wal
> Reporter: Himanshu Vashishtha
> Assignee: Sean Busbey
> Fix For: 2.0.0, 0.99.2
>
> Attachments: 10378-1.patch, 10378-2.patch
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> HBASE-5937 introduces the HLog interface as a first step to support multiple
> WAL implementations. This interface is a good start, but has some
> limitations/drawbacks in its current state, such as:
> 1) There is no clear distinction b/w User and Implementor APIs, and it
> provides APIs both for WAL users (append, sync, etc) and also WAL
> implementors (Reader/Writer interfaces, etc). There are APIs which are very
> much implementation specific (getFileNum, etc) and a user such as a
> RegionServer shouldn't know about it.
> 2) There are about 14 methods in FSHLog which are not present in HLog
> interface but are used at several places in the unit test code. These tests
> typecast HLog to FSHLog, which makes it very difficult to test multiple WAL
> implementations without doing some ugly checks.
> I'd like to propose some changes in HLog interface that would ease the multi
> WAL story:
> 1) Have two interfaces WAL and WALService. WAL provides APIs for
> implementors. WALService provides APIs for users (such as RegionServer).
> 2) A skeleton implementation of the above two interface as the base class for
> other WAL implementations (AbstractWAL). It provides required fields for all
> subclasses (fs, conf, log dir, etc). Make a minimal set of test only methods
> and add this set in AbstractWAL.
> 3) HLogFactory returns a WALService reference when creating a WAL instance;
> if a user need to access impl specific APIs (there are unit tests which get
> WAL from a HRegionServer and then call impl specific APIs), use AbstractWAL
> type casting,
> 4) Make TestHLog abstract and let all implementors provide their respective
> test class which extends TestHLog (TestFSHLog, for example).
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