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ramkrishna.s.vasudevan commented on HBASE-7876:
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@Maryann
HBASE-6853 introduced this behaviour.
Check out the comment by Stack in
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/EditComment!default.jspa?id=12608605&commentId=13460866.
Infact we had two options either to succeed the split or throw exception and
finally agreed to throw exception.
> Got exception when manually triggers a split on an empty region
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> Key: HBASE-7876
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-7876
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: regionserver
> Affects Versions: 0.94.5
> Reporter: Maryann Xue
> Assignee: Maryann Xue
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: HBASE-7876-0.94.patch
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> We should allow a region to split successfully even if it does not yet have
> storefiles.
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