[jira] [Created] (HBASE-21191) Add a holding-pattern if no assign for meta or namespace (Can happen if masterprocwals have been cleared).

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

stack created HBASE-21191:
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             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).



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