Aditya Kishore created HBASE-6158:
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Summary: Data loss if the words 'merges' or 'splits' are used as
Column Family name
Key: HBASE-6158
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6158
Project: HBase
Issue Type: Bug
Components: master, regionserver
Affects Versions: 0.94.0
Reporter: Aditya Kishore
If a table is creates with either 'merges' or 'splits' as one of the Column
Family name it can never be flushed to the disk even though the table creation
(and data population) succeeds.
The reason for this is that these two are used as temporary directory names
inside the region folder or merge and splits respectively and hence conflicts
with the directories created for CF with same name.
A simple fix would be to uses ".merges' and ".splits" as the working folder
(patch attached). This will also be consistent with other work folder names. An
alternate fix would be to declare these words (and other similar) as reserve
words and throw exception when they are used. However, I do find the alternate
approach as unnecessarily restrictive.
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