[jira] Commented: (CASSANDRA-432) possible to have orphaned data files that never get deleted

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

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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-432:
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(refering to ColumnFamilyStore.onStart and SSTable.delete)

> possible to have orphaned data files that never get deleted
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-432
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-432
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Jonathan Ellis
>            Assignee: Gary Dusbabek
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 0.5
>
>
> startup looks for data files, then tries to load them
> delete removes starting w/ the data file (so that if there is a partial delete, we don't panic on the next start b/c of missing index or bloom filter)
> but this means that if we have a partial delete, the index/BF files can persist forever

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