Would you be able to patch in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3695 and see what hbck tells you now? Else you could try using the 0.90.3 rc0 which has it too: http://people.apache.org/~stack/hbase-0.90.3-candidate-0/
J-D On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Andy Sautins <andy.saut...@returnpath.net> wrote: > > I finally got around to running 'hbase hbck' on our HBase cluster. We > noticed the following error being reported: > > Chain of regions in table myTable contains less elements than are listed in > META; visited=671, edges=681 > ERROR: Found inconsistency in table myTable > > Can anyone help shed some light on what that error means and how I might > resolve it? It does seem like the table is in somewhat of a bad state ( > e.g., there are two regions that have blank start key but have different end > keys ). > > We are running from the cloudera CDH3U0 distribution. Note also this > table was originally created and running for a long time under the early .89 > releases. I did run both 'hbase hbck -fix' and 'check_meta.rb -fix' and > still have the above inconsistency so it looks like I need to take manual > action at this point but I'm a little stumped on how to go about it. > > Any insight would be appreciated. > > Thanks > > Andy > > >