On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Wayne <[email protected]> wrote: > Can someone please try to help answer one specific question? I had to > manually delete the actual HDFS data for the corrupted tables as disable > would not work. I am now seeing messages on the master from the > CatalogJanitor saying "REGIONINFO_QUALIFIER is empty" for regions in tables > that are no longer there. How do I fix this?
Did you delete all rows in the .META. table corresponding to the table whose data you removed from hdfs? If not, delete them (hbase> deleteall '.META.', 'TABLE_ROW') > I did a scan of the .META. and > see no trace of this old table or its regions. What is left to do to > manually remove all traces of this blasted table? Do I truly need to start > from scratch for the entire cluster? > So, a scan of .META. does not show rows from the old table at all? When it says REGIONINFO_QUALIFIER is empty, it says what row has the empty qualifier? St.Ack
