[jira] [Created] (ACCUMULO-4031) consistency check failure

["Eric Newton (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Eric Newton created ACCUMULO-4031:
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             Summary: consistency check failure
                 Key: ACCUMULO-4031
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-4031
             Project: Accumulo
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: tserver
    Affects Versions: 1.6.4
         Environment: Very large production cluster
            Reporter: Eric Newton


Sorry for the lack of concrete details, but my logs are not online.

This system does a lot of bulk ingest.  When it was shut down, a few tablets complained about inconsistency of their file list with what was in the metadata table.

I tracked one down, the others appear to be similar.

First, the inconsistency was an "extra" bulk import file in the metadata table, which was missing from the in-memory list.

The file was attempted to bulk loaded into the tablet, but the bulk-load failed.  It failed due to a constraint violation: the bulk transaction was no longer running.

Except, really, it was. The constraint fired during the update of the tablets' metadata.  The server of the metadata tablet was having a (brief) connection problem with zookeeper, which is where the bulk transaction status is stored.

The importing tablet server saw the constraint violation, and didn't add the file to the in-memory list.  However, 2 minutes later, the bulk import was retried, and (consulting the metadata table), it claimed the file *was* imported already.

So, in the intervening 2 minutes, somehow the update was made to the metadata tablet.

 * No splitting of either tablet occurred during this event.
 * Neither tablet was moved during this event.
 * No recovery of the metadata table took place.
 * The tablet server never reported the file imported.

I reviewed the handling of constraints, and it looks correct (despite ACCUMULO-4029).

With ACCUMULO-3327, the tablet server will not reject retries, because it does not re-consult the metadata table.

I don't know how the mutations would be applied without the tablet server reporting the file as loaded.



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