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Michael Stack edited comment on HBASE-11288 at 5/19/20, 1:20 AM: ----------------------------------------------------------------- <fantasy> Can we split meta in a way such that older clients keep working? Perhaps old clients get a proxying Region that fields requests to the actual split meta table so they keep working? Can we NOT do a ROOT table w/ its crazy meta-meta comparator? </fantasy> Yeah, when registry is hosted by Master, master now carries some location ops we used farm out to zk. Master-hosted registry could host Meta table Region locations too... seems apt for a Registry. We've not been good at tier's of assign; i.e. ROOT first, then META regions. was (Author: stack): <fantasy> Can we split meta in a way such that older clients keep working? Perhaps old clients get a proxying Region that fields requests to the actual split meta table so they keep working? Can we NOT do a ROOT table w/ its crazy meta-meta comparator? </fantasy> Yeah, when registry is hosted by Master, master now carries some location ops we used farm out to zk. Master-hosted registry could host Meta table Region locations too... seems apt for a Registry. > Splittable Meta > --------------- > > Key: HBASE-11288 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11288 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Umbrella > Components: meta > Reporter: Francis Christopher Liu > Assignee: Francis Christopher Liu > Priority: Major > -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)