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Enis Soztutar commented on HBASE-5986:
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bq. I think we are assuming in many other places that META only has a single
region.
The ROOT is -by-design- one region, but META is not, right?
bq. Is there another alternative, such as adding the daughter regions first,
and then have HTable disentangle conflicts?
I have thought about this as well, but then there is a time window in which you
have both the parent and daughter regions online, and parent not marked as
split. So the client again has to resolve that the returned regions are
overlapping.
> Clients can see holes in the META table when regions are being split
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> Key: HBASE-5986
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5986
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.92.1, 0.96.0, 0.94.1
> Reporter: Enis Soztutar
> Assignee: Enis Soztutar
> Attachments: HBASE-5986-test_v1.patch
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> We found this issue when running large scale ingestion tests for HBASE-5754.
> The problem is that the .META. table updates are not atomic while splitting a
> region. In SplitTransaction, there is a time lap between the marking the
> parent offline, and adding of daughters to the META table. This can result in
> clients using MetaScanner, of HTable.getStartEndKeys (used by the
> TableInputFormat) missing regions which are made just offline, but the
> daughters are not added yet.
> This is also related to HBASE-4335.
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