Michael Stack created HBASE-25761:
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Summary: POC: hbase:meta,,1 as ROOT
Key: HBASE-25761
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-25761
Project: HBase
Issue Type: Sub-task
Reporter: Michael Stack
One of the proposals up in the split-meta design doc suggests a sleight-of-hand
where the current hard-coded hbase:meta,,1 Region is leveraged to serve as
first Region of a split hbase:meta but also does double-duty as 'ROOT'. This
suggestion was put aside as a complicating recursion in chat but then Francis
noticed on a re-read of the BigTable paper, that this is how they describe they
do 'ROOT': "The root tablet is just the first tablet in the METADATA table, but
is treated specially -- it is never split..."
This issue is for playing around with this notion to see what the problems are
so can do a better description of this approach here, in the design:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11ChsSb2LGrSzrSJz8pDCAw5IewmaMV0ZDN1LrMkAj4s/edit?ts=606c120f#heading=h.ikbhxlcthjle
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