[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-2976) Severe bug on commit log replay

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

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Zhu Han commented on CASSANDRA-2976:
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For file system with coarse time resolution, e.g. ext3 with 1s resolution, this problem can be reproduced much easily...

> Severe bug on commit log replay
> -------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-2976
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2976
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Core
>    Affects Versions: 0.6.13
>            Reporter: Zhu Han
>   Original Estimate: 4h
>  Remaining Estimate: 4h
>
> For 0.6, the replay order of commit log is determined by modify time(mtime) of commit log files. The roll and update of a new log segment can be finished under 1ms if the log device is backed up by BBU or it is a SSD with super capacitor. So the last log segment and previous segment can have the same mtime.
> While File#listFiles() does not guarantee the order of return files, after sorting by mtime, it is possible that the new log segment are replayed before old log segment.  This can causes data loss!
> Here is the output of log,  you can observe from the timestamp in the commit log file names that new log segment are replayed before old segment...
>  INFO [main] 2011-07-30 01:21:07,569 CommitLog.java (line 171) Replaying /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog/CommitLog-1311959800795.log, /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog/CommitLog-1310661748573.log, /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog/CommitLog-1311838097776.log
>  INFO [main] 2011-07-30 01:21:07,571 CommitLog.java (line 286) Finished reading /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog/CommitLog-1311959800795.log
>  INFO [main] 2011-07-30 01:21:15,813 CommitLog.java (line 286) Finished reading /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog/CommitLog-1310661748573.log
>  INFO [main] 2011-07-30 01:21:15,865 CommitLog.java (line 286) Finished reading /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog/CommitLog-1311838097776.log
>  INFO [main] 2011-07-30 01:21:15,926 CommitLog.java (line 174) Log replay complete
> I have not checked 0.7.x and 0.8.x, I suppose they both have the same problem.

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