[KUDU-1503] Add a WAL truncation tool

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0
• Component/s: consensus, ops-tooling
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mike Percy
• Created: 24/Jun/16 22:54
• Updated: 26/Oct/18 18:38

Description

It would be useful to build a tool that allows truncation of a consensus write-ahead log. This could be necessary if something happened in production that wrote a "bad" record to a WAL and we need to back it out because it's causing a crash, for example.

Issue Links

• is a child of: KUDU-2615 Add more tools for dealing with the WAL