[jira] [Commented] (HBASE-4524) support for more than one region in .META. table

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stack commented on HBASE-4524:
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Reasons to let meta split other than because the cluster has millions of regions:

+ Distribute the load on meta.
+ Its 'catastrophic' if server carrying meta goes away.  It'd be *less* catastrophic if the regionserver were carrying only a piece of meta.
                
> support for more than one region in .META. table
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-4524
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-4524
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Ming Ma
>            Assignee: Ming Ma
>
> It seems there are some assumptions in the code that .META. table only has one region FIRST_META_REGIONINFO in the following areas:
> 1) .META. table update with user region info.
> 2) .META. regions assignment.
> 3) .META. table split handling.
> Perhaps we don't have such requirement until we scale to really large number of regions like 1M.

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