bq. What if i have multiple META regions

Currently .META. (hbase:meta in 0.96+) table cannot be split.

Cheers


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Vimal Jain <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> Just while scanning ROOT and META tables on 2 node cluster , i found
> following :-
>
> scan '-ROOT-'
>
>  .META.,,1                          column=info:regioninfo,
> timestamp=1394103619228, value={NAME => '.META.,,1', STARTKEY => '', ENDKEY
>                                     => '', ENCODED => 1028785192,}
>
>  .META.,,1                          column=info:server,
> timestamp=1394103628033,
> value=ip-10-14-24-19.ap-southeast-1.compute.internal:60
>                                     020
>
>  .META.,,1                          column=info:serverstartcode,
> timestamp=1394103628033, value=1394103612380
>  .META.,,1                          column=info:v, timestamp=1394103619228,
> value=\x00\x00
>
> So there is one row with RowKey '.META.,,1' and 4 different columns for
> this rowkey.
> What these 4 columns signify , i understood little about cq 'server'.
>
> I am assuming that , in my case , there is only one region for META so only
> one row while scanning ROOT.What if i have multiple META regions there will
> be one row for each region in ROOT ?
> I tried splitting META from master UI at 60010 , but it did not split it
> into 2.
>
> Also scanning META gave similar output as above but this time row key
> consisted of user table name.
> Is there any guide in understanding structure of these system tables ?
> Please help.
>
>
> --
> Thanks and Regards,
> Vimal Jain
>

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