Thanks Ted. The log says "java.io.IOException: missing table descriptor for ba912582f295f7ac0b83e7e419351602
[AM.ZK.Worker-pool2-t6552] master.RegionStates: Failed to open/close ba912582f295f7ac0b83e7e419351602 set to FAILED_OPEN" The version of hbase is 1.3.1 Thanks. Antonio. On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 2:28 PM Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > Do you have access to master / region logs for when FAILED_OPEN state was > noticed ? > > There should be some hint there as to why some region couldn't open. > > The length of table DDL is related to number of regions the table has. But > the length should be less related to data amount. > > Which version of hbase are you using ? > > Thanks > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 2:22 PM Antonio Si <antonio...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > We have a table which is stuck in FAILED_OPEN state. So, we planned to > drop > > the table and re-clone the table from an old snapshot. We disabled the > > table, but the disable procedure has been running for more than 20 hrs. > > > > I went to hbase shell and found out "is_disabled" and "is_enabled" both > > return false. Is that a normal behavior since the table is in the middle > of > > being disabled? > > > > Is it normal that the disable took that many hours even though the table > is > > large in size (about 33TB)? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Antonio. > > >