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stack commented on HBASE-4282: ------------------------------ You going to apply Gary? > Potential data loss in retries of WAL close introduced in HBASE-4222 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HBASE-4282 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4282 > Project: HBase > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Gary Helmling > Assignee: Gary Helmling > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 0.92.0, 0.90.5 > > Attachments: HBASE-4282_0.90_2.patch, HBASE-4282_trunk_2.patch, > HBASE-4282_trunk_prelim.patch > > > The ability to ride over WAL close errors on log rolling added in HBASE-4222 > could lead to missing HLog entries if: > * A table has DEFERRED_LOG_FLUSH=true > * There are unflushed WALEdit entries for that table in the current > SequenceFile writer buffer > Since the writes were already acknowledged to the client, just ignoring the > close error to allow for another log roll doesn't seem like the right thing > to do here. > We could easily flag this state and only ride over the close error if there > aren't unflushed entries. This would bring the above condition back to the > previous behavior of aborting the region server. However, aborting the > region server in this state is still guaranteeing data loss. Is there > anything we can do better in this case? -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira