huaxiangsun commented on a change in pull request #1903: URL: https://github.com/apache/hbase/pull/1903#discussion_r442343397
########## File path: hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/HMaster.java ########## @@ -1166,7 +1166,11 @@ private void finishActiveMasterInitialization(MonitoredTask status) throws IOExc assignmentManager.checkIfShouldMoveSystemRegionAsync(); status.setStatus("Assign meta replicas"); MasterMetaBootstrap metaBootstrap = createMetaBootstrap(); - metaBootstrap.assignMetaReplicas(); + try { + metaBootstrap.assignMetaReplicas(); + } catch (HBaseIOException e){ Review comment: Most of KeeperException has been handled inside the methods when I looked through the code path. IMO, if we do not want meta replicas to prevent master to become active, we should just catch and log it, let the other critical modules to decide if it needs to abort/block. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org