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Anoop Sam John commented on HBASE-15321:
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So what is the adv of it over the MR scanner over the snapshot directly?
Sorry asking to know the clear adv and use case. This will help others also.
> Ability to open a HRegion from hdfs snapshot.
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> Key: HBASE-15321
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-15321
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: churro morales
> Fix For: 2.0.0
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> Attachments: HBASE-15321-v1.patch, HBASE-15321-v2.patch,
> HBASE-15321-v3.patch, HBASE-15321.patch
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> Now that hdfs snapshots are here, we started to run our mapreduce jobs over
> hdfs snapshots. The thing is, hdfs snapshots are read-only point-in-time
> copies of the file system. Thus we had to modify the section of code that
> initialized the region internals in HRegion. We have to skip cleanup of
> certain directories if the HRegion is backed by a hdfs snapshot. I have a
> patch for trunk with some basic tests if folks are interested.
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