Upgrading to 0.94.5 is definitely recommended. 

As for inconsistencies in .META. Table, can you avoid improper shutdown ?

On Mar 15, 2013, at 5:36 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Ted,
> 
> We're using 0.94.1. Do you think if we upgrade to 0.94.5, the issue will be 
> gone? I mean, HBase won't have this META inconsistence issue after incorrect 
> shutdown?
> 
> We encountered quite a few major issues with 0.94.2, that's why we picked 
> 0.94.1. Does that mean 0.94.5 is a pretty stable load?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> YuLing
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Yu [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 3:51 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: hbase server incorrect shutdown case table corruption?
> 
> Which HBase version are you using ?
> 
> Did the HBase server experiencing shutdown carry the .META. table ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 3:45 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> We recently encountered a few issues about hbase server incorrect 
>> shutdown causing table corruption issues. Basically, if the HBase 
>> server was not gracefully shutdown using stop-hbase.sh, instead it was 
>> shutdown by linux server reboot, we got '.META' table missing table 
>> rows. We were able to use 'hsbk -fixMeta -fixAssignment' to recover 
>> from this issue. However, I was wondering if this is the expected 
>> behavior of HBase that when hbase server is not gracefully shutdown, 
>> the database get into inconsistency state?  Is there any way from hbase 
>> configuration point of view to avoid this behavior?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> YuLing
>> 

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