Thanks Himanshu, we're planning to use Replication for cross DC replication for DR (and we added a bunch of stuff and fixed bugs in replication).
We'll have it always on (and only use stop/start_peer, which is new in 0.94+ to temporarily stop replication, rather than stop/start_replication) HBASE-2611 is a problem. We did not have time recently to work on this. i) and ii) can be worked around by forcing a log roll on all region servers after replication was enabled. Replication would be considered started after the logs were rolled... But that is quite annoying. Is iii) still a problem in 0.92+? I thought we fixed that together with a). -- Lars ________________________________ From: Himanshu Vashishtha <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:11 PM Subject: HBase Replication use cases Hello All, I have been doing testing on the HBase replication (0.90.4, and 0.92 variants). Here are some of the findings: a) 0.90+ is not that great in handling out znode changes; in an ongoing replication, if I delete a peer and a region server goes to the znode to update the log status, the region server aborts itself when it sees a missing znode. Recoverable Zookeeper seems to have fix this in 0.92+? 0.92 has lot of new features (start/stop handle, master master, cyclic). But there are corner cases with the start/stop switches. i) A log is en-queue when the replication state is set to true. When we start the cluster, it is true and the starting region server takes the new log into the queue. If I do a stop_replication, and there is a log roll, and then I do a start_replication, the current log will not be replicated, as it has missed the opportunity of being added to the queue. ii) If I _start_ a region server when the replication state is set to false, its log will not be added to the queue. Now, if I do a start_replication, its log will not be replicated. iii) Removing a peer doesn't result in master region server abort, but in case of zk is down and there is a log roll, it will abort. Not a serious one as zk is down so the cluster is not healthy anyway. I was looking for jiras (including 2611), and stumbled upon 2223. I don't think there is any thing like time based partition behavior (as mentioned in the jira description). Though. the patch has lot of other nice things which indeed are in existing code. Please correct me if I miss anything. Having said that, I wonder about other folks out there use it. Their experience, common issues (minor + major) they come across. I did find a ppt by Jean Daniel at oscon mentioning about using it in SU production. I plan to file jiras for the above ones and will start digging in. Look forward for your responses. Thanks, Himanshu
