[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-7419) revisit hfilelink file name format.

["Matteo Bertozzi (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Matteo Bertozzi commented on HBASE-7419:
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I agree, the introduction of a "special character" simplifies the identification of a HFileLink, and allows to remove the FileNotFoundException handling from the StoreFile.
                
> revisit hfilelink file name format.
> -----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-7419
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-7419
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: Client, master, regionserver, snapshots, Zookeeper
>            Reporter: Jonathan Hsieh
>             Fix For: hbase-6055, 0.96.0
>
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> Valid table names are concatted with a '.' to a valid regions names is also a valid table name, and lead to the incorrect interpretation.
> {code}
> true hfile name constraints: [0-9]+(?:_SeqID_[0-9]+)?
> region name constraints    : [a-f0-9]{16}  (but we currently just use [a-f0-9]+.)
> table name constraints     : [a-zA-Z0-9_][a-zA-Z0-9_.-]*
> {code}
> Notice that the table name constraints completely covers all region name constraints and true hfile name constraints.   (a valid hfile name is a valid part of a table name, and a valid enc region name is a valid part of a table name.
> Currently the hfilelink filename convention is <hfile>-<region>-<table>.  Unfortunately, making a ref to this uses the name <hfile>-<region>-<table>.<parentregion> -- the contactnation of <table>.<parentregion> is a valid table name used to get interpreted as such.  The fix in HBASE-7339 requires a FileNotFoundException before going down the hfile link resolution path. 
> Regardless of what we do, we need to add some char invalid for table names to the hfilelink or reference filename convention.
> Suggestion: if we changed the order of the hfile-link name we could avoid some of the confusion -- <table>@<region>-<hfile>.<parentregion> (or some other separator char than '@') could be used to avoid handling on the initial filenotfoundexception but I think we'd still need a good chunk of the logic to handle opening half-storefile reader throw a hfilelink.

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