I was thinking of doing that but I suspect that zookeeper keeps metadata of tables also. Seems like region servers are fine for now without the master and I don't want to make the problem worse by taking chances.
If I run 'hbase hbck' it complains about master is not running also. I found the following two posts which indicate that I should remove the zookeeper nodes. Can somebody confirm? 1. http://stackoverflow.com/a/14557937/1195960 2. http://arnon.me/2013/01/killing-hbase-zombie-table/ On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 9:51 AM, lagend <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe you can remove the hdfs files of those bad tables. > like： bin/hadoop fs -rm /hbase/TABLENAME > > > > > ------------------ 原始邮件 ------------------ > 发件人: "Kristoffer Sjögren";<[email protected]>; > 发送时间: 2014年10月14日(星期二) 下午3:27 > 收件人: "user"<[email protected]>; > > 主题: Force remove table > > > > Hi > > I accidentally created a few tables with 'lzo' compression without the jar > dependencies in hbase 0.94.7. This caused havoc on the master which > eventually crashed and now I can't start it again [1]. > > I tried to remove the tables but I can't - hbase shell is complaining about > the master is not running so i'm stuck. > > Is there a way to forcefully delete these tables or any other way to get > the master back up? > > Cheers, > -Kristoffer > > > 1. http://pastebin.com/Jprr6j39 >
