From 1d65d5dfa61c3a7c5767e8ce01552bcf16303f8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ramkrishna <ramkrishna.s.vasudevan@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 22:52:47 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] HBASE-11440 Make KeyValueCodecWithTags as the default codec
 for replication in trunk (Ram)

---
 hbase-common/src/main/resources/hbase-default.xml | 14 +++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hbase-common/src/main/resources/hbase-default.xml b/hbase-common/src/main/resources/hbase-default.xml
index 70d20a7660b..a31e53dff75 100644
--- a/hbase-common/src/main/resources/hbase-default.xml
+++ b/hbase-common/src/main/resources/hbase-default.xml
@@ -716,7 +716,8 @@ possible configurations would overwhelm and obscure the important.
       <value>3</value>
       <description>The HFile format version to use for new files.
       Version 3 adds support for tags in hfiles (See http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#hbase.tags).
-      Distributed Log Replay requires that tags are enabled.
+      Distributed Log Replay requires that tags are enabled. Also see the configuration
+      'hbase.replication.rpc.codec'. 
       </description>
   </property>
   <property>
@@ -1270,6 +1271,17 @@ possible configurations would overwhelm and obscure the important.
       ThreadPool.
     </description>
   </property>
+  <property>
+  	<name>hbase.replication.rpc.codec</name>
+  	<value>org.apache.hadoop.hbase.codec.KeyValueCodecWithTags</value>
+  	<description>
+  		The codec that is to be used when replication is enabled so that
+  		the tags are also replicated. This is used along with HFileV3 which 
+  		supports tags in them.  If tags are not used or if the hfile version used
+  		is HFileV2 then KeyValueCodec can be used as the replication codec. Note that
+  		using KeyValueCodecWithTags for replication when there are no tags causes no harm.
+  	</description>
+  </property>
   <!-- Static Web User Filter properties. -->
   <property>
     <description>