There is a lot riding on getting this release right. There have been some
serious bugs unearthed since 0.20.0 RC1. This makes me nervous. I'm not sure I
understand the rationale for releasing 0.20.0 now and then 0.20.1 in one week,
as opposed to taking the same amount of time to run another RC cycle to produce
a 0.20.0 without bad known defects. What is the benefit?

HBASE-1794: Recovered data still seems missing until compaction, which might
not happen for 24 hours. Seems like a fix is already known? HBASE-1780: Data loss, known fix. HBASE-1784: Data loss.

I'll try to put up a patch/band-aid against at least one of these tonight.

HBASE-1784 is really troubling. We should roll back a failed compaction, not
vaporize data. -1 on those grounds alone.

- Andy

________________________________ From: stack <sta...@duboce.net> To: hbas...@hadoop.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:21:33 PM Subject: Re: ANN: hbase 0.20.0 Release Candidate 2 available for download

It will take a week or so to roll a new RC and to test and vote on it.

Why not let out RC2 as 0.20.0 and do 0.20.1 within the next week or so?

The balancing issue happens when you new node online only. Usually balancing ain't bad.

The Mathias issue is bad but still being investigated.

Andrew?

St.Ack

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Mathias Herberts < math...@gmail.com> wrote: