Probably not related to this RC specifically. I tried to upgrade my HBase 0.94 data to 0.98. The first time I started HBase the master died, because I did not confiure short circuit reads correctly.
The problem is that on each subsequent start the master dies with: master.HMaster: Unhandled exception. Starting shutdown. org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.FileSystemVersionException: HBase file layout needs to be upgraded. You have version 7 and I want version 8. Is your hbase.rootdir valid? If so, you may need to run 'hbase hbck -fixVersionFile' The problem is that I cannot run hbck, since it fails to contact the master, but the master does not start, because of this issue, and hence there is no easy way to fix. It seems one gets one chance to upgrade the HBase metadata, and if that fails it won't be attempted again. -- Lars ________________________________ From: Andrew Purtell <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 11:32 AM Subject: [VOTE] The 1st HBase 0.98.0 release candidate is available for download The 1st HBase 0.98.0 release candidate (RC0) is available for download at http://people.apache.org/~apurtell/0.98.0RC0/ and Maven artifacts are also available in the temporary repository https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachehbase-1001/ Signed with my code signing key D5365CCD. HBase 0.98.0 is the next major release after HBase 0.96. It is expected to be wire compatible with HBase 0.96, so clients and servers mixed between these versions will seamlessly interoperate, provided new features available in 0.98 are not enabled. However, the HBase 0.98.0 release is not intended to be binary compatible at the Java API level with any HBase 0.96 release or earlier. You may need to recompile applications which reference the HBase JARs. Users of HBase 0.94 will have to perform an offline data migration procedure during upgrade. Consult the HBase Online Manual for more information. It is not necessary to migrate data from 0.94 to 0.98 through 0.96, you can upgrade from 0.94 to 0.98 directly if desired following the same procedure for upgrading from 0.94 to 0.96. This release includes several new security features like per-cell visibility labels, per-cell ACLs, transparent encryption, and related changes to the coprocessor framework. Please see the Security section of the HBase Online Manual for more information. There are also significant improvements, such as a change to the write ahead log (WAL) threading model that provides higher transaction throughput under high load. The list of changes in this release can be found here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12310753&version=12323143 Please try out the candidate and vote +1/-1 by midnight Pacific Time (00:00 -0800 GMT) on February 1 on whether or not we should release this as 0.98.0. -- Best regards, - Andy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein (via Tom White)
