On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Zhenyu Zhong <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I have been experiencing an issue that one of my HBase table, which contains > 1800+ regions, sometimes cannot be enabled. > Sometimes I tried to restart the HBase in order to let this big table to > have a clean start, but still I can't make the table to be enabled. > The strange thing is I can see all the 1800+ regions are opened, however the > table status is disabled. > You can't read/update it?
> Would this indicate that there could be some race conditions after all the > regions of a table are brought online such that the table state can't be set > to enabled? What happens if you run enable table after its up? If you scan your table, are some all regions offline? Scan the .META. table and see each of your table's regions. There is an offline attribute that shows if the region is offlined, only. Are you seeing any of that in your table? > > I noticed that there is a fix in version 0.20.3 about unable to disable a > table if any of its regions is opening at the same time. Would that be > related? > It could be. You could try updating. St.Ack
