taklwu commented on pull request #2237: URL: https://github.com/apache/hbase/pull/2237#issuecomment-673880783
> how we could start a cluster with no data on zookeeper? IMO the title of the google design may be going on the cloud use cases that has been restarting on just HFiles without WAL and without Zookeeper (but all the user tables are flushed and disabled before terminating it). I knew that may not be mentioned in the [book tutorial](https://hbase.apache.org/book.html), and it may be a good time to clarify how that cases are actually working and some users has been using in HBase-1.4.x and HBase maybe before 2.1.7. Then we can see what the gaps maybe now in branch-2.2+ to support it back (basically, that's the intention of having this PR and [PR#2113](https://github.com/apache/hbase/pull/2113) ) > As you want to start the HMaster and recover from the inconsistency what does `inconsistency` mean here? I see your point that using `InitMetaProcedure#INIT_META_WRITE_FS_LAYOUT` to `indicate` inconsistency, but if we don't delete meta and just starting the cluster, IMO HBCK `-detail` will show a clean result without any inconsistency? we may not hit any `inconsistency` when getting into `InitMetaProcedure`. For this topic, I may just start a email on if `InitMetaProcedure` should delete meta without checking `partial` and `consistency`, please bear with me, and this may be the only thing I want a quick discussion instead of a long design doc on the cloud use cases. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
