[CASSANDRA-16162] Improve empty hint file handling on startup

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.24, 3.11.10, 4.0-rc1, 4.0
• Component/s: Consistency/Hints
• Change Category: Operability
• Complexity: Low Hanging Fruit
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/f02e53568dbc193b7ac75cc19b0a7751d5514b95

Test and Documentation Plan

cci run

• Assignee: Marcus Eriksson
• Reporter: Marcus Eriksson

Authors

Marcus Eriksson

Reviewers

Benjamin Lerer, Yifan Cai

• Created: 02/Oct/20 06:17
• Updated: 25/Feb/21 10:10
• Resolved: 15/Jan/21 08:33

Description

Since CASSANDRA-14080 we handle empty/corrupt hint files on startup, we should remove empty files and rename corrupt ones to make sure we don't get the same exception on every startup