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Matteo Bertozzi commented on HBASE-7987:
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A snapshot is a set of empty files, since we don't need the content.
basically the restore uses only the name of the file to know what to restore.
(the only special case is a reference file)
{quote}What would be the recommended format when this optimization is in place
? Are we going to provide option for user to switch between the former and this
optimization ?{quote}
again not sure what you mean, if we're going for a format2, there will be just
format2 on write, and both on read like the HFile.
The format that I've proposed is the one in the description basically each RS
dump a list of SnapshotRegionManifest (one file per RS)
The master writes as today the .snapshotInfo and the .tableInfo
> Snapshot Manifest file instead of multiple empty files
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>
> Key: HBASE-7987
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-7987
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: snapshots
> Reporter: Matteo Bertozzi
>
> Currently taking a snapshot means creating one empty file for each file in
> the source table directory, plus copying the .regioninfo file for each
> region, the table descriptor file and a snapshotInfo file.
> during the restore or snapshot verification we traverse the filesystem
> (fs.listStatus()) to find the snapshot files, and we open the .regioninfo
> files to get the information.
> to avoid hammering the NameNode and having lots of empty files, we can use a
> manifest file that contains the list of files and information that we need.
> To keep the RS parallelism that we have, each RS can write its own manifest.
> {code}
> message SnapshotDescriptor {
> required string name;
> optional string table;
> optional int64 creationTime;
> optional Type type;
> optional int32 version;
> }
> message SnapshotRegionManifest {
> optional int32 version;
> required RegionInfo regionInfo;
> repeated FamilyFiles familyFiles;
> message StoreFile {
> required string name;
> optional Reference reference;
> }
> message FamilyFiles {
> required bytes familyName;
> repeated StoreFile storeFiles;
> }
> }
> {code}
> {code}
> /hbase/.snapshot/<snapshotName>
> /hbase/.snapshot/<snapshotName>/snapshotInfo
> /hbase/.snapshot/<snapshotName>/<tableName>
> /hbase/.snapshot/<snapshotName>/<tableName>/tableInfo
> /hbase/.snapshot/<snapshotName>/<tableName>/regionManifest(.n)
> {code}
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