I think it is not acceptable to assume proper shutdown... if this is a real issue we should fix it, unless it's already fixed on trunk.
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Ted <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >> >
