[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-2261) During Compaction, Corrupt SSTables with rows that cause failures should be identified and blacklisted.

["Pavel Yaskevich (Commented) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Pavel Yaskevich commented on CASSANDRA-2261:
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Ben, are you going to work on this?
                
> During Compaction, Corrupt SSTables with rows that cause failures should be identified and blacklisted.
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-2261
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2261
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Benjamin Coverston
>            Assignee: Benjamin Coverston
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: not_a_pony
>             Fix For: 1.1.1
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>         Attachments: 2261-v2.patch, 2261.patch
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> When a compaction of a set of SSTables fails because of corruption it will continue to try to compact that SSTable causing pending compactions to build up.
> One way to mitigate this problem would be to log the error, then identify the specific SSTable that caused the failure, subsequently blacklisting that SSTable and ensuring that it is no longer included in future compactions. For this we could simply store the problematic SSTable's name in memory.
> If it's not possible to identify the SSTable that caused the issue, then perhaps blacklisting the (ordered) permutation of SSTables to be compacted together is something that can be done to solve this problem in a more general case, and avoid issues where two (or more) SSTables have trouble compacting a particular row. For this option we would probably want to store the lists of the bad combinations in the system table somewhere s.t. these can survive a node failure (there have been a few cases where I have seen a compaction cause a node failure).

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