[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-7191) HBCK - Add offline create/fix hbase.version and hbase.id

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

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Oleg Zhurakousky commented on HBASE-7191:
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Actually, this affects other versions as well
{code}
HBase 0.94.1
{code}
Further more; FSUtils spits out a misleading message
{code}
 String msg = "File system needs to be upgraded."
      + "  You have version " + version
      + " and I want version " + HConstants.FILE_SYSTEM_VERSION
      + ".  Run the '${HBASE_HOME}/bin/hbase migrate' script.";
{code}
As far as I can tell 'migrate' script is no longer available

One would think 'hbase hbck -fixVersionFile' would do the trick, but that requires a running instance of HBase which we can't start unless those two files are in tact 

The current workaround is to temporarily change the value of 'hbase.rootdir' -> start/stop hbase (this will re-create the two files) -> copy those files to the original 'hbase.rootdir' and change 'hbase.rootdir' to point back to the original one. However, this is obviously a hack. May what really needs to happen is to have and offline option of 'hbase hbck -fixVersionFile'.

                
> HBCK - Add offline create/fix hbase.version and hbase.id 
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-7191
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-7191
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: hbck
>    Affects Versions: 0.96.0
>            Reporter: Enis Soztutar
>
> One of our clients run into a problem, in which they have the hbase.root.dir, and cluster data, but their hbase.id and hbase.version files are corrupted. HMaster creates those on start, but not if there is already existing data.
> We can add smt like --fixIdFile, and ability for HBCK to do some offline repairs for the version file. 

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