[KUDU-463] Add checksumming to cfile and other on-disk formats

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Private Beta
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: cfile, tablet
• Labels: roadmap-candidate
• Target Version/s: 1.4.0
• Assignee: Grant Henke
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 14/Aug/14 15:05
• Updated: 18/Jun/19 13:02
• Resolved: 10/May/17 18:45

Description

We should add CRC32C checksums to cfile blocks, metadata blocks, etc, to protect against silent disk corruption. We should probably do this prior to a public release, since it will likely have a negative performance impact, and we don't want to have a public regression.