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Sergey Shelukhin commented on HBASE-5487:
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You'd need some way to connect these "end" with what AM is doing, so AM will
have to support operations attached to its actions even if there's separate
operation management.
Moreover, you'd find out that these are not "steps", they are state goals.
For example, if you are disabling table, you want to close regions. So in case
of separate operation manager, you might create tasks to close all regions. But
what if some server fails? Now some of your regions are already closed.
Separate operations to close region might fail now, but the goal is achieved.
If I start disabling table and then kill all RS-es, the table is now disabled
:) But all operations would fail.
State goals fit much more naturally in AM than "steps". I want to avoid steps
as much as possible.
Stateful (as in, having separate step) multi-step operations are also hard to
coordinate. In the above example, during recovery, you don't want to reopen
region if the table is disabling, but you don't know until it's actually
disabled if the table disable is an external operation.
> Generic framework for Master-coordinated tasks
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>
> Key: HBASE-5487
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-5487
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: master, regionserver, Zookeeper
> Affects Versions: 0.94.0
> Reporter: Mubarak Seyed
> Assignee: Sergey Shelukhin
> Priority: Critical
> Attachments: Region management in Master5.docx, Region management in
> Master.pdf
>
>
> Need a framework to execute master-coordinated tasks in a fault-tolerant
> manner.
> Master-coordinated tasks such as online-scheme change and delete-range
> (deleting region(s) based on start/end key) can make use of this framework.
> The advantages of framework are
> 1. Eliminate repeated code in Master, ZooKeeper tracker and Region-server for
> master-coordinated tasks
> 2. Ability to abstract the common functions across Master -> ZK and RS -> ZK
> 3. Easy to plugin new master-coordinated tasks without adding code to core
> components
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