Hi jms,How are you? Hope everything is ok:)We have encountered a strange behavior in mob..some of our values contain only the reference cells..instead of leading us to the mob we get hex value+ mob file name suffix..Have you seen such behavior?We suspect the compact mob doesn't update the reference..Will appreciate your thoughts on the issue..ThanksSent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message --------From: Omri Cohen <omri_co...@outlook.com> Date: 8/17/19 16:42 (GMT+02:00) To: hbase-u...@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Mob reference tags go missing Hello,We recently encountered a problem in our production hbase cluster (CDH deployment, version 5.13.1).We have a cluster with a high mob percentage ( > 50% of objects are MOB, the threshold is the default 102400 bytes). The cluster has been active for about a year. Recently, our clients started to receive the mob reference instead of the mob data when trying to access certain rows (in most tables about 10% of the rows are bad, in one table it is about 50% of rows).When we investigated the HFiles, we saw that the "bad" cells are missing two tags that exist in the "good" rows, it looks something like that:K: {rowkey of a "good" row} {Column family, column qualifier}... vlen=76/seqid=... V: \x00\x04\xFB.{MOB file name} T[0]: T[1]: {table name}K: {rowkey of a "bad" row} {Column family, column qualifier}... vlen=76/seqid=... V: \x00\x13\x1A{MOB file name}The "good" row returns the expected data when queried, while the "bad" row returned the mob file reference instead of the data. This happened when we queried from the REST server, the native java client, and the hbase shell.When we examined the mob files, we saw that all the data was there. * Has anyone encountered a similar situation? * Is it possible to manually add the missing mob reference tags to the "bad" rows?No changes where made to the table in recently. We never encountered this issue before.We would appreciate any help on this issue.________________________________From: Omri CohenSent: Saturday, August 17, 2019 4:28 PMTo: hbase-u...@hadoop.apache.org <hbase-u...@hadoop.apache.org>Subject: Mob reference tags go missingHello,We recently encountered a problem in our production hbase cluster.We have a cluster with a high mob percentage ( > 50% of objects are MOB, the threshold is the default 102400 bytes). The cluster has been active for about a year. Recently, our clients started to receive the mob reference instead of the mob data when trying to access certain rows (in most tables about 10% of the rows are bad, in one table it is about 50% of rows).When we investigated the HFiles, we saw that the "bad" cells are missing two tags that exist in the "good" rows, it looks something like that: