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stack commented on HBASE-8093:
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+1 as long as you can make the alias work.
Why call it something wah like -META-? We have the notion of 'system tables'
now... We should name them w/ same convention if possible. I suppose there is
_acl_ which would fit this category. What tables did Jesse add if any in his
patch? System tables being with a dot?
> Change the .META. table name for file system incompatibility
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>
> 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
>
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> 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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