[CASSANDRA-2261] During Compaction, Corrupt SSTables with rows that cause failures should be identified and blacklisted.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.1
• Labels: not_a_pony
• Assignee: Pavel Yaskevich
• Reporter: Benjamin Coverston

Authors

Pavel Yaskevich

Reviewers

Brandon Williams

• Created: 02/Mar/11 20:23
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:33
• Resolved: 28/Feb/12 20:47

Description

When a compaction of a set of SSTables fails because of corruption it will continue to try to compact that SSTable causing pending compactions to build up.

One way to mitigate this problem would be to log the error, then identify the specific SSTable that caused the failure, subsequently blacklisting that SSTable and ensuring that it is no longer included in future compactions. For this we could simply store the problematic SSTable's name in memory.

If it's not possible to identify the SSTable that caused the issue, then perhaps blacklisting the (ordered) permutation of SSTables to be compacted together is something that can be done to solve this problem in a more general case, and avoid issues where two (or more) SSTables have trouble compacting a particular row. For this option we would probably want to store the lists of the bad combinations in the system table somewhere s.t. these can survive a node failure (there have been a few cases where I have seen a compaction cause a node failure).