* Creates a new {@link RegionInfo} from a pre-0.95 META {@link KeyValue}.
*/
private static RegionInfo
deserializeOldRegionInfo(final KeyValue kv, final byte[][] out_start_key) {
final ChannelBuffer buf = ChannelBuffers.wrappedBuffer(kv.value());
buf.readByte(); // Skip the version.
// version 1 was introduced in HBase 0.92 (see HBASE-451).
// The differences between v0 and v1 are irrelevant to us,
// as we only look at the first few fields, and they didn't
// change across these 2 versions.
final byte[] stop_key = HBaseRpc.readByteArray(buf);