[CASSANDRA-13321] Add a checksum component for the sstable metadata (-Statistics.db) file

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-alpha1, 4.0
• Assignee: Marcus Eriksson
• Reporter: Marcus Eriksson

Authors

Marcus Eriksson

Reviewers

Jason Brown

• Created: 10/Mar/17 08:18
• Updated: 15/May/20 08:00
• Resolved: 06/Oct/17 13:29

Description

Since we keep important information in the sstable metadata file now, we should add a checksum component for it. One danger being if a bit gets flipped in repairedAt we could consider the sstable repaired when it is not.