[jira] Commented: (HBASE-1108) Redundant meta tables

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

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Jim Kellerman commented on HBASE-1108:
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HBASE-7 (fsck for HBase) is supposed to address this issue.

> Redundant meta tables
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>
>                 Key: HBASE-1108
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-1108
>             Project: Hadoop HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Andrew Purtell
>             Fix For: 0.20.0
>
>
> If the data file for -ROOT- or .META. is damaged, a HBase installation is rendered inoperative. Manual recovery through writing a new -ROOT- by hand is relatively simple (I think) but it's not simple and maybe not even possible to recreate a .META. containing thousands of regions. During one experiment I lost the entire .META. data file due to DFS errors during compaction. This can be avoided by utilizing multiple backing data files for -ROOT- and .META. synchronized in a manner that avoids total data loss should the filesystem become degraded. 

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