Hello, I prepared two patched that allowed me to resolve this issue by deploying it on an RS that hosts the hbase:meta table. You can find more details in the following two upstream issues I have opened with additional patches used for resolving the issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29633 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-29554 From my investigation this problem was not solvable without the extra patches. I have tested and fixed it in HBase v2.5.10 succesfully. ... View more