[jira] Commented: (HBASE-2531) 32-bit encoding of regionnames waaaaaaayyyyy too susceptible to hash clashes

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stack commented on HBASE-2531:
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After some discussion up on IRC -- todd, posix4e, jdcryans, kannan -- and thought was that UUID would make the most sense.

> 32-bit encoding of regionnames waaaaaaayyyyy too susceptible to hash clashes
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-2531
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-2531
>             Project: Hadoop HBase
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: stack
>            Assignee: stack
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 0.20.5, 0.21.0
>
>
> Kannan tripped over two regionnames that hashed the same:
> Here is code demo'ing that his two names hash the same:
> {code}
> package org;
> import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;
> import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.JenkinsHash;
> public class Testing {
>   public static void main(final String [] args) {
>     System.out.println(encodeRegionName(Bytes.toBytes("test1,6838000000,1273541236167")));
>     System.out.println(encodeRegionName(Bytes.toBytes("test1,0520100000,1273541610201")));
>   }
>   /**
>    * @param regionName
>    * @return the encodedName
>    */
>   public static int encodeRegionName(final byte [] regionName) {
>     return Math.abs(JenkinsHash.getInstance().hash(regionName, regionName.length, 0));
>   }
> }
> {code}
> Need new encoding mechanism.  Will need to migrate old regions to new schema.

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