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Sean Busbey commented on HBASE-21843:
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there already is a separate wal provider for meta wal. We changed behavior in
HBASE-20856 so that it would default to the same as the primary wal provider if
set, instead of the default provider.
maybe we should restrict which providers can be set for meta?
> RegionGroupingProvider breaks the meta wal file name pattern which may cause
> data loss for meta region
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> Key: HBASE-21843
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21843
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: wal
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0, 2.1.0, 2.2.0
> Reporter: Wellington Chevreuil
> Assignee: Wellington Chevreuil
> Priority: Blocker
> Labels: data-loss
> Fix For: 3.0.0, 2.2.0, 2.1.3, 2.0.5, 2.3.0
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> Attachments: HBASE-21843.master.001.patch, HBASE-21843.patch
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> A bit unusual, but managed to face this twice lately on both distributed and
> local standalone mode, on VMs. Somehow, after some VM pause/resume, got into
> a situation where regions on meta were assigned to a give RS startcode that
> had no corresponding WAL dir.
> That caused those regions to never get assigned, because the given RS
> startcode is not found anywhere by RegionServerTracker/ServerManager, so no
> SCP is created to this RS startcode, leaving the region "open" on a dead
> server forever, in META.
> Could get this sorted by adding extra check on loadMeta, checking if the RS
> assigned to the region in meta is not online and doesn't have a WAL dir, then
> mark this region as offline.
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