[jira] [Updated] (CASSANDRA-9627) fsync should not be "best effort"

["Benedict (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9627?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Benedict updated CASSANDRA-9627:
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    Summary: fsync should not be "best effort"  (was: fsync should not be "best effort" (and silently fail on e.g. windows))

> fsync should not be "best effort"
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-9627
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9627
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Benedict
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 2.2.0 rc2
>
>
> Currently we make an effort to synchronize both the file contents and the directory contents. Both are essential to ensure no data loss. Currently we just try to do this, and ignore the problem if we can't. Presumably this behaviour was to "sort of" support Windows (i.e. not crash). Now we officially support Windows, we need to behave better, and really IMO we should _never_ for any platform ignore a failure here. It should be part of our pre-flight checks: if we cannot do it, we cannot run safely.
> It looks like this may be supported trivially through FileChannel, by opening one on the directory itself (and calling force()), although it's not clear if this will still be supported in Java 9 [see discussion here|http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/nio-dev/2015-May/003140.html].
> [~JoshuaMcKenzie]: assigning to you for now, just so it's tracked by the Windows overlord.



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