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Jean-Daniel Cryans commented on HBASE-4238: ------------------------------------------- Log of the issue (daughter region being d06b3b8c85af53ccbe139df7f0877e51): {quote} 2011-08-22 15:06:50,227 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.catalog.MetaEditor: Deleted daughter reference TestTable,,1314050587746.7ada9de242de30a4e91f00a8dfcbf693., qualifier=splitA, from parent TestTable,,1314050584480.d06b3b8c85af53ccbe139df7f0877e51. 2011-08-22 15:06:50,229 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.catalog.MetaEditor: Deleted daughter reference TestTable,0000013824,1314050587746.66c3c9f067203cfb7c0a541e9207766d., qualifier=splitB, from parent TestTable,,1314050584480.d06b3b8c85af53ccbe139df7f0877e51. 2011-08-22 15:06:50,230 DEBUG org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.CatalogJanitor: Deleting region TestTable,,1314050584480.d06b3b8c85af53ccbe139df7f0877e51. because daughter splits no longer hold references 2011-08-22 15:06:50,230 DEBUG org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion: DELETING region file:/tmp/hbase-jdcryans/hbase/TestTable/d06b3b8c85af53ccbe139df7f0877e51 2011-08-22 15:06:50,234 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hbase.catalog.MetaEditor: Deleted region TestTable,,1314050584480.d06b3b8c85af53ccbe139df7f0877e51. from META 2011-08-22 15:06:50,235 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.CatalogJanitor: Daughter regiondir does not exist: file:/tmp/hbase-jdcryans/hbase/TestTable/d06b3b8c85af53ccbe139df7f0877e51 2011-08-22 15:11:50,220 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.CatalogJanitor: Daughter regiondir does not exist: file:/tmp/hbase-jdcryans/hbase/TestTable/d06b3b8c85af53ccbe139df7f0877e51 2011-08-22 15:16:50,224 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.CatalogJanitor: Daughter regiondir does not exist: file:/tmp/hbase-jdcryans/hbase/TestTable/d06b3b8c85af53ccbe139df7f0877e51 ... {quote} Those last lines will happen forever, and .META. will be littered with that row. > CatalogJanitor can clear a daughter that split before processing its parent > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-4238 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4238 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.90.4 > Reporter: Jean-Daniel Cryans > Priority: Critical > Fix For: 0.90.5 > > > I didn't dig a lot into this issue, but by splitting a table twice in a row I > was able to trigger a situation where a daughter of the first split was > deleted by the CatalogJanitor before it processed its parent. Will post log > in a comment. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira