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stack commented on HBASE-2531:
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@Kannan As I see it, we just need to make sure that the system can work with 
both styles of naming; that it reads in the old stuff without issue and that at 
same time, for any new region created, we should use the UUID form writing new 
region directory names.  Somehow, we also need to drop this notion of encoding 
the region name.  Going forward it will not be needed since the UUID will 
actually be part of the region name.

I agree that getting zk in the mix or even hdfs for that matter making region 
dirctory names complicates something that could be real simple if we use UUIDs.

> 32-bit encoding of regionnames waaaaaaayyyyy too susceptible to hash clashes
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-2531
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2531
>             Project: Hadoop HBase
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: stack
>            Assignee: stack
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 0.21.0
>
>
> Kannan tripped over two regionnames that hashed the same:
> Here is code demo'ing that his two names hash the same:
> {code}
> package org;
> import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;
> import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.JenkinsHash;
> public class Testing {
>   public static void main(final String [] args) {
>     
> System.out.println(encodeRegionName(Bytes.toBytes("test1,6838000000,1273541236167")));
>     
> System.out.println(encodeRegionName(Bytes.toBytes("test1,0520100000,1273541610201")));
>   }
>   /**
>    * @param regionName
>    * @return the encodedName
>    */
>   public static int encodeRegionName(final byte [] regionName) {
>     return Math.abs(JenkinsHash.getInstance().hash(regionName, 
> regionName.length, 0));
>   }
> }
> {code}
> Need new encoding mechanism.  Will need to migrate old regions to new schema.

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