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[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-12728) Handling partially written hint files

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Hansey Chen commented on CASSANDRA-12728:
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I was looking at this issue and could not understand one of the effects of this bug.

Garvit Juniwal mentioned in [one|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12728?focusedCommentId=15576548&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15576548] of his comments that this bug will "put cassandra in a crash loop". Also Harikrishnan said in [a related issue|https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12844] that this bug crashed many nodes.

But I cannot figure out how an EOFE during hinted handoff can crash a cassandra node. Is it only crashing the hints dispatching thread? And how can it affect other nodes?

Could anyone please explain a little bit more? Many thanks in advance.

> Handling partially written hint files
> -------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-12728
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12728
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Sharvanath Pathak
>            Assignee: Garvit Juniwal
>              Labels: lhf
>             Fix For: 3.0.14, 3.11.0, 4.0
>
>         Attachments: CASSANDRA-12728.patch
>
>
> {noformat}
> ERROR [HintsDispatcher:1] 2016-09-28 17:44:43,397 HintsDispatchExecutor.java:225 - Failed to dispatch hints file d5d7257c-9f81-49b2-8633-6f9bda6e3dea-1474892654160-1.hints: file is corrupted ({})
> org.apache.cassandra.io.FSReadError: java.io.EOFException
>         at org.apache.cassandra.hints.HintsReader$BuffersIterator.computeNext(HintsReader.java:282) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at org.apache.cassandra.hints.HintsReader$BuffersIterator.computeNext(HintsReader.java:252) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at org.apache.cassandra.utils.AbstractIterator.hasNext(AbstractIterator.java:47) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at org.apache.cassandra.hints.HintsDispatcher.sendHints(HintsDispatcher.java:156) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at org.apache.cassandra.hints.HintsDispatcher.sendHintsAndAwait(HintsDispatcher.java:137) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at org.apache.cassandra.hints.HintsDispatcher.dispatch(HintsDispatcher.java:119) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at org.apache.cassandra.hints.HintsDispatcher.dispatch(HintsDispatcher.java:91) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at org.apache.cassandra.hints.HintsDispatchExecutor$DispatchHintsTask.deliver(HintsDispatchExecutor.java:259) [apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at org.apache.cassandra.hints.HintsDispatchExecutor$DispatchHintsTask.dispatch(HintsDispatchExecutor.java:242) [apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at org.apache.cassandra.hints.HintsDispatchExecutor$DispatchHintsTask.dispatch(HintsDispatchExecutor.java:220) [apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at org.apache.cassandra.hints.HintsDispatchExecutor$DispatchHintsTask.run(HintsDispatchExecutor.java:199) [apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) [na:1.8.0_77]
>         at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) [na:1.8.0_77]
>         at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) [na:1.8.0_77]
>         at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) [na:1.8.0_77]
>         at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) [na:1.8.0_77]
> Caused by: java.io.EOFException: null
>         at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.RebufferingInputStream.readFully(RebufferingInputStream.java:68) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at org.apache.cassandra.io.util.RebufferingInputStream.readFully(RebufferingInputStream.java:60) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at org.apache.cassandra.hints.ChecksummedDataInput.readFully(ChecksummedDataInput.java:126) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at org.apache.cassandra.utils.ByteBufferUtil.read(ByteBufferUtil.java:402) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at org.apache.cassandra.hints.HintsReader$BuffersIterator.readBuffer(HintsReader.java:310) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at org.apache.cassandra.hints.HintsReader$BuffersIterator.computeNextInternal(HintsReader.java:301) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         at org.apache.cassandra.hints.HintsReader$BuffersIterator.computeNext(HintsReader.java:278) ~[apache-cassandra-3.0.6.jar:3.0.6]
>         ... 15 common frames omitted
> {noformat}
> We've found out that the hint file was truncated because there was a hard reboot around the time of last write to the file. I think we basically need to handle partially written hint files. Also, the CRC file does not exist in this case (probably because it crashed while writing the hints file). May be ignoring and cleaning up such partially written hint files can be a way to fix this?



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