After increasing and decreasing the TTL value of a Hbase Table , table gets inaccessible. Scan table not working. Workaround: we found some hfiles got created with no rows in it. When we removed those files, scan works.

After increasing and decreasing the TTL value of a Hbase Table , table gets inaccessible. Scan table not working.

Scan in hbase shell throws

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Block index not loaded
at com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkState(Preconditions.java:145)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.HFileReaderV1.blockContainingKey(HFileReaderV1.java:181)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.io.hfile.HFileReaderV1$AbstractScannerV1.seekTo(HFileReaderV1.java:426)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.StoreFileScanner.seekAtOrAfter(StoreFileScanner.java:226)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.StoreFileScanner.seek(StoreFileScanner.java:145)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.StoreScanner.<init>(StoreScanner.java:131)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.Store.getScanner(Store.java:2015)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion$RegionScannerImpl.<init>(HRegion.java:3706)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion.instantiateRegionScanner(HRegion.java:1761)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion.getScanner(HRegion.java:1753)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegion.getScanner(HRegion.java:1730)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.regionserver.HRegionServer.openScanner(HRegionServer.java:2409)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor56.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.WritableRpcEngine$Server.call(WritableRpcEngine.java:320)
at org.apache.hadoop.hbase.ipc.HBaseServer$Handler.run(HBaseServer.java:1426)