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Matteo Bertozzi commented on HBASE-15128:
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snapshot is not a good example, because you don't want to disable split/merge 
in that case. you want the snapshot be aware of it. at the moment the current 
implementation is simple and does not tolerate any kind of failure. 
but proc-v2 had since day1 as a goal to have snapshot fault tolerant, and we 
are able to do that without having to disable split/merge.

but +1 on the argument "this is not hbck only"

> Disable region splits and merges in HBCK
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 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
>
>         Attachments: HBASE-15128.patch, HBASE-15128_v1.patch, 
> HBASE-15128_v3.patch
>
>
> 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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