HBASE-8706 Some improvement in snapshot (binlijin)

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HBASE-8702: Make WALEditCodec pluggable

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hbase-8738.  refguide, OpsMgt chapter, overhauled HBase metrics section.

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hbase-8739.  book.xml  fixed typo in MapReduce chapter "spitting"

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