Why Does HBase Become Faulty When I Set a Quota for the Directory Used by HBase in HDFS?

Question

Why does HBase become faulty when I set quota for the directory used by HBase in HDFS?

Answer

The flush operation of a table is to write memstore data to HDFS.

If the HDFS directory does not have sufficient disk space quota, the flush operation will fail and the region server will stop.

Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.protocol.DSQuotaExceededException: The DiskSpace quota of /hbase/data/<namespace>/<tableName> is exceeded: quota = 1024 B = 1 KB but diskspace consumed = 402655638 B = 384.00 MB
?at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.DirectoryWithQuotaFeature.verifyStoragespaceQuota(DirectoryWithQuotaFeature.java:211)
?at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.DirectoryWithQuotaFeature.verifyQuota(DirectoryWithQuotaFeature.java:239)
?at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.verifyQuota(FSDirectory.java:882)
?at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.updateCount(FSDirectory.java:711)
?at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.updateCount(FSDirectory.java:670)
?at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSDirectory.addBlock(FSDirectory.java:495)

In the preceding exception, the disk space quota of the /hbase/data/<namespace>/<tableName> table is 1 KB, but the memstore data is 384.00 MB. Therefore, the flush operation fails and the region server stops.

When the region server is terminated, HMaster replays the WAL file of the terminated region server to restore data. The disk space quota is limited. As a result, the replay operation of the WAL file fails, and the HMaster process exits unexpectedly.

2016-07-28 19:11:40,352 | FATAL | MASTER_SERVER_OPERATIONS-10-91-9-131:16000-0 | Caught throwable while processing event M_SERVER_SHUTDOWN | org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.HMaster.abort(HMaster.java:2474)
java.io.IOException: failed log splitting for 10-91-9-131,16020,1469689987884, will retry
?at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.handler.ServerShutdownHandler.resubmit(ServerShutdownHandler.java:365)
?at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.handler.ServerShutdownHandler.process(ServerShutdownHandler.java:220)
?at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.executor.EventHandler.run(EventHandler.java:129)
?at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
?at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
?at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: error or interrupted while splitting logs in [hdfs://hacluster/hbase/WALs/<RS-Hostname>,<RS-Port>,<startcode>-splitting] Task = installed = 6 done = 3 error = 3
?at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.SplitLogManager.splitLogDistributed(SplitLogManager.java:290)
?at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.MasterFileSystem.splitLog(MasterFileSystem.java:402)
?at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.master.MasterFileSystem.splitLog(MasterFileSystem.java:375)

Therefore, you cannot set the quota value for the HBase directory in HDFS. If the exception occurs, perform the following operations: