The Repo should probably switch to shutdown mode when you have only one tserver. However, it's a little surprising that your master goes into "clean shutdown" mode when you ask for one server to go offline.
I wouldn't bother with a new ticket. Its not an issue for 1.5 and it's a silly case. -Eric On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:28 AM, John Vines <vi...@apache.org> wrote: > I bumped into a bug with ACCUMULO-676, which has to do with offlining a > tserver & logger on a single node instance. Specifically, they get jammed > up on a scan of the !METADATA table to ensure that nothing else still needs > the logger ( http://pastebin.com/m8Q3ZTTn ). There's a quick fix there > which is to not do the !METADATA check if there are no tservers. But this > leads to a slightly larger potential issue of !METADATA scans failing > perpetually with no oppertunity for error handling. There are some > instances where you want to do retries. But at some point, the error needs > to be kicked back to a higher level for it to handle (whether or not it > retries immediately is up to the specific case). > > However, this seems like something that would have been broached before, so > perhaps there is some reasoning for it here that I'm overlooking. Any > thoughts before I open up a gargantuan ticket to broach this subject? > > John >
