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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 15:32:29 -0700
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Subject: Re: regions unlinked from table
From: Suraj Varma <svarma.ng@gmail.com>
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Try doing an hbase hbck to see if it reports inconsistency. And do an
hbase hbck -fix to see if it fixes it for you. See
http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbck.in.depth

Note that since 0.90.4 is old, some of the documented options won't be
available ... but hbase hbck -fix will be available.
--S

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Bryan Beaudreault
<bbeaudreault@hubspot.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm running hbase 0.90.4, and somehow the regions for one of my tables have
> become unlinked from the table itself.  The Master UI shows no regions for
> the table, and attempting to call Table.getRegionsInfo() returns nothing.
>  However, I can see the regions in hdfs in their proper location and doing
> a scan of the table via the hbase shell does return results.  I also get
> results if I do a Get for a specific rowkey.
>
> How can I get these regions back associated with the table, and any idea
> why this may have happened?  I tried grepping the hmaster logs but didn't
> see anything relevant.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bryan