[CASSANDRA-7125] Fail to start by default if Commit Log fails to validate any messages

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 2.1.x
• Labels: correctness remove-reopen
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Benedict Elliott Smith

Reviewers

Vijay

• Created: 30/Apr/14 20:59
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31

Description

Current behaviour can be pretty dangerous, and also has a tendency to mask bugs during development. We should change the behaviour to default to failure if anything unexpected happens, and introduce a cassandra.yaml option that permits overriding the default behaviour.

Issue Links

• relates to: CASSANDRA-9749 CommitLogReplayer continues startup after encountering errors