[CASSANDRA-12106] Add ability to blocklist / denylist a CQL partition so all requests are ignored

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.1-alpha1, 4.1
• Component/s: Legacy/Local Write-Read Paths, Local/Config

Source Control Link

https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=commit;h=ab920c30310a8c095ba76b363142b8e74cbf0a0a

Test and Documentation Plan

New documentation to be written when API is settled upon from review.

• Assignee: Josh McKenzie
• Reporter: Geoffrey Yu

Authors

Josh McKenzie

Reviewers

Aleksei Zotov, Sumanth Pasupuleti

• Created: 28/Jun/16 23:29
• Updated: 06/Feb/23 03:39
• Resolved: 01/Nov/21 16:51

Description

Sometimes reads/writes to a given partition may cause problems due to the data present. It would be useful to have a manual way to blocklist / denylist
such partitions so all read and write requests to them are rejected.

Issue Links

• is related to: CASSANDRA-18116 Denylist can load perpetually and too frequently if it fails persistently
• is related to: CASSANDRA-18235 Write docs for CEP-13