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Enis Soztutar commented on HBASE-15128:
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bq. It is not only for hbck. Snapshots and bulk load will benefit from
disabling splits as well.
Agreed, a long running snapshot fails if there is a split or merge that happen
concurrently.
> Disable region splits and merges in HBCK
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>
> Key: HBASE-15128
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15128
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Enis Soztutar
> Assignee: Heng Chen
> Fix For: 2.0.0, 1.3.0
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> In large clusters where region splits are frequent, and HBCK runs take
> longer, the concurrent splits cause further problems in HBCK since HBCK
> assumes a static state for the region partition map. We have just seen a case
> where HBCK undo's a concurrently splitting region causing number of
> inconsistencies to go up.
> We can have a mode in master where splits and merges are disabled like the
> balancer and catalog janitor switches. Master will reject the split requests
> if regionservers decide to split. This switch can be turned on / off by the
> admins and also automatically by HBCK while it is running (similar to
> balancer switch being disabled by HBCK).
> HBCK should also disable the Catalog Janitor just in case.
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