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Prakash Khemani commented on HBASE-3845:
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I agree that the test case is OK. We should change the HLog code to account for
the case that lastSeqWritten might not be updated if WAL is not being written
to.
> data loss because lastSeqWritten can miss memstore edits
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HBASE-3845
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3845
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.90.3
> Reporter: Prakash Khemani
> Assignee: ramkrishna.s.vasudevan
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 0.90.5
>
> Attachments:
> 0001-HBASE-3845-data-loss-because-lastSeqWritten-can-miss.patch,
> HBASE-3845_1.patch, HBASE-3845_2.patch, HBASE-3845_4.patch,
> HBASE-3845_5.patch, HBASE-3845_6.patch, HBASE-3845__trunk.patch,
> HBASE-3845_trunk_2.patch, HBASE-3845_trunk_3.patch
>
>
> (I don't have a test case to prove this yet but I have run it by Dhruba and
> Kannan internally and wanted to put this up for some feedback.)
> In this discussion let us assume that the region has only one column family.
> That way I can use region/memstore interchangeably.
> After a memstore flush it is possible for lastSeqWritten to have a
> log-sequence-id for a region that is not the earliest log-sequence-id for
> that region's memstore.
> HLog.append() does a putIfAbsent into lastSequenceWritten. This is to ensure
> that we only keep track of the earliest log-sequence-number that is present
> in the memstore.
> Every time the memstore is flushed we remove the region's entry in
> lastSequenceWritten and wait for the next append to populate this entry
> again. This is where the problem happens.
> step 1:
> flusher.prepare() snapshots the memstore under
> HRegion.updatesLock.writeLock().
> step 2 :
> as soon as the updatesLock.writeLock() is released new entries will be added
> into the memstore.
> step 3 :
> wal.completeCacheFlush() is called. This method removes the region's entry
> from lastSeqWritten.
> step 4:
> the next append will create a new entry for the region in lastSeqWritten().
> But this will be the log seq id of the current append. All the edits that
> were added in step 2 are missing.
> ==
> as a temporary measure, instead of removing the region's entry in step 3 I
> will replace it with the log-seq-id of the region-flush-event.
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