RECOVERED_EDITS is not a column family. It should be ignored by hbck. Filed a jira:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-7640 Thanks, Jimmy On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > Did you get the name of the broken reference? I'd trace its life in > namenode logs and in regionserver log by searching its name (You might have > to find the region in master logs to see where region landed over time). > The reference name includes the encoded region name as a suffix. This is > the region that the reference 'references'.... so need to figure what > happened with it. Did it get cleaned up before reference was cleared? > (Something that should not happen). > > St.Ack > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari < > jean-m...@spaggiari.org> wrote: > > > Hum. It's still a bit obscur for me how this happend to my cluster... > > > > -repair helped to fix that, so I'm now fine. I will re-run the job I > > ran and see if this is happening again. > > > > Thanks, > > > > JM > > > > 2013/1/21, Stack <st...@duboce.net>: > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Jean-Marc Spaggiari < > > > jean-m...@spaggiari.org> wrote: > > > > > >> Found lingering reference file > > > > > > > > > > > > The comment on the method that is finding the lingering reference files > > is > > > pretty good: > > > > > > http://hbase.apache.org/xref/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/HBaseFsck.html#604 > > > > > > It looks like a reference file that lost its referencee. > > > > > > If you pass this arg., does it help? > > > > > > > > > http://hbase.apache.org/xref/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/util/HBaseFsck.html#3391 > > > > > > > > > St.Ack > > > > > >