stack created HBASE-21191: ----------------------------- Summary: Add a holding-pattern if no assign for meta or namespace (Can happen if masterprocwals have been cleared). Key: HBASE-21191 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-21191 Project: HBase Issue Type: Sub-task Components: amv2 Reporter: stack Assignee: stack
If the masterprocwals have been removed -- operator error, hdfs dataloss, or because we have gotten ourselves into a pathological state where we have hundreds of masterprocwals too process and it is taking too long so we just want to startover -- then master startup will have a dilemma. Master startup needs hbase:meta to be online. If the masterprocwals have been removed, there may be no outstanding assign or a servercrashprocedure with coverage for hbase:meta (I ran into this issue repeatedly in internal testing purging masterprocwals on a large test cluster). Worse, when master startup cannot find an online hbase:meta, it exits after exhausting the RPC retries. So, we need a holding-pattern for master startup if hbase:meta is not online if only so an operator can schedule an assign for meta or so they can assign fixup procedures (HBASE-20786 has discussion on why we cannot just auto-schedule an assign of meta). -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)