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Ted Yu commented on HBASE-3229:
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w.r.t. Kannan's comments.
In TRUNK, the following method of HMaster is async - see the third parameter:
{code}
  public void createTable(HTableDescriptor desc, byte [][] splitKeys)
  throws IOException {
    createTable(desc, splitKeys, false);
  }
{code}
It is the only method exposed through HMasterInterface.

patch v5 from HBASE-3904 makes HBaseAdmin.createTable() to wait for all regions 
to be online.


> Table creation, though using "async" call to master, can actually run for a 
> while and cause RPC timeout
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-3229
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3229
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: client, master
>    Affects Versions: 0.90.0
>            Reporter: Jonathan Gray
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 0.92.0
>
>
> Our create table methods in HBaseAdmin are synchronous from client POV.  
> However, underneath, we're using an "async" create and then looping waiting 
> for table availability.  Because the create is async and we loop instead of 
> block on RPC, we don't expect RPC timeouts.
> However, when creating a table with lots of initial regions, the "async" 
> create can actually take a long time (more than 30 seconds in this case) 
> which causes the client to timeout and gives impression something failed.
> We should make the create truly async so that this can't happen.  And rather 
> than doing one-off, inline assignment as it is today, we should reuse the 
> fancy enable/disable code stack just added to make this faster and more 
> optimal.

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