[jira] [Updated] (CASSANDRA-8952) Remove transient RandomAccessFile usage

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

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Stefania updated CASSANDRA-8952:
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    Component/s: Local Write-Read Paths

> Remove transient RandomAccessFile usage
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-8952
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8952
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Local Write-Read Paths
>            Reporter: Joshua McKenzie
>            Assignee: Stefania
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: Windows
>             Fix For: 2.2.0 beta 1
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> There are a few places within the code base where we use a RandomAccessFile transiently to either grab fd's or channels for other operations. This is prone to access violations on Windows (see CASSANDRA-4050 and CASSANDRA-8709) - while these usages don't appear to be causing issues at this time there's no reason to keep them. The less RandomAccessFile usage in the code-base the more stable we'll be on Windows.
> [SSTableReader.dropPageCache|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/io/sstable/format/SSTableReader.java#L2021]
> * Used to getFD, have FileChannel version
> [FileUtils.truncate|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/io/util/FileUtils.java#L188]
> * Used to get file channel for channel truncate call. Only use is in index file close so channel truncation down-only is acceptable.
> [MMappedSegmentedFile.createSegments|https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/io/util/MmappedSegmentedFile.java#L196]
> * Used to get file channel for mapping.
> Keeping these in a single ticket as all three should be fairly trivial refactors.



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