Enis Soztutar created HBASE-8093:
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Summary: Change the .META. table name for file system
incompatibility
Key: HBASE-8093
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-8093
Project: HBase
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: master, Region Assignment, regionserver
Affects Versions: 0.95.0, 0.98.0
Reporter: Enis Soztutar
Assignee: Enis Soztutar
Fix For: 0.95.0, 0.98.0
Having a table named ".META." causes problems on NTFS file system under
windows, since it does not allow file names ending with ".".
Nicolas and I have been thinking of just changing the name of the META to be
{noformat}-META-{noformat}
Since 0.96 is the singularity, and we already moved ROOT to zk, now seems like
a good time to do such a change. There will be no rolling upgrade support.
We can migrate META, and can keep BC, by having an internal alias between the
old meta name, and new meta name. This way, outside scripts and code who reads
META can still work.
See also HBASE-6818, HBASE-6821.
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