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Elliott Clark updated HBASE-14201:
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Assignee: Simon Law
Fix Version/s: (was: 1.2.0)
Status: Patch Available (was: Open)
> hbck should not take a lock unless fixing errors
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> Key: HBASE-14201
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14201
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: hbck, util
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0, 1.3.0
> Reporter: Simon Law
> Assignee: Simon Law
> Fix For: 2.0.0, 1.3.0
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> Attachments: HBASE-14201-v0.patch
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> By default, hbck is run in a read-only checker mode. In this case, it is
> sensible to let others run. By default, the balancer is left alone,
> which may cause spurious errors, but cannot leave the balancer in a bad
> state. It is dangerous to leave the balancer by accident, so it is only
> ever enabled after fixing, it will never be forced off because of
> racing.
> When hbck is run in fixer mode, it must take an exclusive lock and
> disable the balancer, or all havoc will break loose.
> If you want to stop hbck from running in parallel, the -exclusive flag
> will create the lock file. If you want to force -disableBalancer, that
> option is available too. This makes more semantic sense than -noLock and
> -noSwitchBalancer, respectively.
> This task is related to HBASE-14092.
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