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Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:00:43 -0500 (EST)
From: "ryan rawson (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (HBASE-3481) max seq id in flushed file can be
 larger than its correct value causing data loss during recovery
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ryan rawson commented on HBASE-3481:
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Your analysis sounds correct.  The correct thing to do here is to provide the MAX_SEQ_ID from the memstore KVs, not from the "current" HLog seqid.

good find!

> max seq id in flushed file can be larger than its correct value causing data loss during recovery
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HBASE-3481
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-3481
>             Project: HBase
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Kannan Muthukkaruppan
>            Priority: Critical
>
> [While doing some cluster kill tests, I noticed some missing data after log recovery. Upon investigating further, and pretty printing contents of HFiles and recovered logs, this is my analysis of the situation/bug. Please confirm the theory and pitch in with suggestions.]
> When memstores are flushed, the max sequence id recorded in  the HFile should be the max sequence id of all KVs in the memstore. However, we seem to be simply obtain the current sequence id from the HRegion, and stamp the HFile's MAX_SEQ_ID with it.
> From HRegion.java:
> {code}
>     sequenceId = (wal == null)? myseqid: wal.startCacheFlush();
> {code}
> where, startCacheFlush() is:
> {code}
> public long startCacheFlush() {
>     this.cacheFlushLock.lock();
>     return obtainSeqNum();
>  }
> {code}
> where, obtainSeqNum() is simply: 
> {code}
>     public long startCacheFlush() {
>     this.cacheFlushLock.lock();
>     return obtainSeqNum();
>   }
> {code}
> So let's say a memstore contains edits with sequence number 1..10.
> Meanwhile, say more Puts come along, and are going through this flow (in pseudo-code)
> {code}
>    1. HLog.append();
>        1.1  obtainSeqNum()
>        1.2 writeToWAL()
>    2 updateMemStore()
> {code}
> So it is possible that the sequence number has already been incremented to say 15 (if there are 5 more outstanding puts)... but if their writeToWAL() is still in progress. In this case, none of these edits (11..15) would have been written to memstore yet.
> At this point if a cache flush of the memstore happens, then we'll record its MAX_SEQ_ID as 16 instead of 10 (because that's what obtainSeqNum() would return as the next sequence number to use, right?).
> Assume that the edits 11..15 eventually complete. And so HLogs do contain the data for edits 11..15.
> Now, at this point if the region server were to crash, and we run log recovery, the splits all go through correctly, and a correct recovered.edits file is generated with the edits 11..15. 
> Next, when the region is opened, the HRegion notes that one of the store file says MAX_SEQ_ID is 16. So, when it replays the recovered.edits file, it  skips replaying edits 11..15. Or in other words, data loss.
> ----

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