public static Put makePutForReplicationBarrier(RegionInfo regionInfo, long openSeqNum, long ts)
    throws IOException {
    Put put = new Put(regionInfo.getRegionName(), ts);
    addReplicationBarrier(put, openSeqNum);
    return put;
  }
Helper class for storing replication barriers in family 'rep_barrier' of meta table.
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See SerialReplicationChecker on how to make use of the barriers.
hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/ReplicationBarrierFamilyFormat.java