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Michael Stack commented on HBASE-21035:
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To address more directly [~allan163]'s original description:
"Since no one will bring meta region online."
We added 'fix' to hbck2 to address above.
'hbck2 --skip assigns 1588230740' will force assign of hbase:meta if Master
stuck in startup waiting on hbase:meta to online AND no Procedure to assign
hbase:meta (because for example, MasterProcWALs have all been removed.... or
are corrupt). See the help usage from hbck2 for the assigns command. Will also
work for namespace region assign (HBASE-21156).
{quote} assigns [OPTIONS] <ENCODED_REGIONNAME>...
Options:
-o,--override override ownership by another procedure
A 'raw' assign that can be used even during Master initialization (if
the -skip flag is specified). Skirts Coprocessors. Pass one or more
encoded region names. 1588230740 is the hard-coded name for the
hbase:meta region and de00010733901a05f5a2a3a382e27dd4 is an example of
what a user-space encoded region name looks like. For example:
$ HBCK2 assign 1588230740 de00010733901a05f5a2a3a382e27dd4
Returns the pid(s) of the created AssignProcedure(s) or -1 if none.{quote}
> Meta Table should be able to online even if all procedures are lost
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>
> Key: HBASE-21035
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21035
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Affects Versions: 2.1.0
> Reporter: Allan Yang
> Assignee: Allan Yang
> Priority: Major
> Attachments: HBASE-21035.branch-2.0.001.patch,
> HBASE-21035.branch-2.1.001.patch
>
>
> After HBASE-20708, we changed the way we init after master starts. It will
> only check WAL dirs and compare to Zookeeper RS nodes to decide which server
> need to expire. For servers which's dir is ending with 'SPLITTING', we assure
> that there will be a SCP for it.
> But, if the server with the meta region crashed before master restarts, and
> if all the procedure wals are lost (due to bug, or deleted manually,
> whatever), the new restarted master will be stuck when initing. Since no one
> will bring meta region online.
> Although it is an anomaly case, but I think no matter what happens, we need
> to online meta region. Otherwise, we are sitting ducks, noting can be done.
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