Harsh pretty much summed it up already (e.g., "don't do that") but below is some further reading of what just happened...
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#arch.catalog http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#trouble.namenode ... META is just an HBase table under the covers. By deleting the table on the HDFS filesystem, it did nothing with the table metadata in META. On 5/7/12 9:18 AM, "Harsh J" <[email protected]> wrote: >The drop is what you ought to have done first, before removing the FS >folder and the meta entries. It does all those actions for you. Why >did you do it this way? > >Do you see the table still appearing in the list outputs? Can you >provide us a paste bin link of: > >echo "scan '.META.'" | hbase shell | grep cjjWaitHash > >On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Jiajun Chen <[email protected]> wrote: >> I deleted the folder use bin/hadoop fs -rmr /hbase/cjjWaitHash ,and >>deleted >> the row with prefix cjjWaitHash in .META. >> Now how can I drop the table cjjWaitHash ? > > > >-- >Harsh J >
