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 >>
