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Matteo Bertozzi commented on HBASE-15128:
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{quote}IMO we can do a tradeoff, firstly we go on this issue and patch, after
it committed, we could disable region split and merge at least. And then, we
create an issue as subtask of HBASE-13936 to refactor all switches based on
dynamic configuration{quote}
this patch as it is is a -1 to me. because of that set_switch that wants to be
generic.
if you want to solve ONLY the disable split/merge. Jon solution with the table
lock is probably ok, and I also think we use that already in hbck.
> 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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