[jira] [Created] (HBASE-14004) Inconsistency between Memstore and WAL

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

He Liangliang created HBASE-14004:
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             Summary: Inconsistency between Memstore and WAL
                 Key: HBASE-14004
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-14004
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: regionserver
            Reporter: He Liangliang
            Priority: Critical


We encountered data inconsistency issue between master and slave clusters. Looks like the current write path can cause inconsistency between memstore/hfile and WAL which cause the slave cluster has more data than the master cluster.

The simplified write path looks like:
1. insert record into Memstore
2. write record to WAL
3. sync WAL
4. rollback Memstore if 3 fails

In step 3, the sync operation can fail in two case:
1. The caller disconnected the socket due to timeout or any other client crashes
2. The underlying HDFS sync operation can fails

For case 1, the caller may disconnect the socket (for example, timeout due to slow sync), but the sync can finally succeed because it's an asynchronous operation. As a result, the handler will rollback the Memstore and the later flushed HFile will also skip this record.
For case 2, it's possible that the HDFS sync RPC call fails, but the data is already  (may partially) transported to the DNs which finally get persisted.

0.94 code fails in both cases, and looks like the trunk code suffered only case 2.




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