I think that would be a useful tool. It would also fit well into the project's hbase-operator-tools repo.
Mind filing a jira to set some initial goals? Or look for suggestions on initial goal over on dev@hbase? On Wed, Aug 19, 2020, 18:10 Andrey Elenskiy <andrey.elens...@arista.com.invalid> wrote: > Hello, > > Over years I have been dealing with corrupted hfiles by just removing them. > It always seemed wasteful to throw away the entire HFile even only if one > block is corrupted. > > Do you happen to know if a tool to rewrite the hfile with omitting/skipping > corrupt blocks already exists? If not, would such a tool be of use to the > community? The goal of such a tool is to try and recover as much data as > possible. We can always drop data on the hbase block boundaries as well. > > Andrey >
