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Marcus Eriksson commented on CASSANDRA-6696:
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[~benedict] do you mean having a background job move data around after upgrade?
Or hanging on startup and rewriting everything?
Current version would end up with data on the correct disks eventually with
compactions, but I agree it would be nice to be able to just care about the
disks when flushing and streaming. Manually copying sstables into the datadirs
and calling 'nodetool refresh' would also need some care.
> Drive replacement in JBOD can cause data to reappear.
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> Key: CASSANDRA-6696
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-6696
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Reporter: sankalp kohli
> Assignee: Marcus Eriksson
> Fix For: 3.0
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> In JBOD, when someone gets a bad drive, the bad drive is replaced with a new
> empty one and repair is run.
> This can cause deleted data to come back in some cases. Also this is true for
> corrupt stables in which we delete the corrupt stable and run repair.
> Here is an example:
> Say we have 3 nodes A,B and C and RF=3 and GC grace=10days.
> row=sankalp col=sankalp is written 20 days back and successfully went to all
> three nodes.
> Then a delete/tombstone was written successfully for the same row column 15
> days back.
> Since this tombstone is more than gc grace, it got compacted in Nodes A and B
> since it got compacted with the actual data. So there is no trace of this row
> column in node A and B.
> Now in node C, say the original data is in drive1 and tombstone is in drive2.
> Compaction has not yet reclaimed the data and tombstone.
> Drive2 becomes corrupt and was replaced with new empty drive.
> Due to the replacement, the tombstone in now gone and row=sankalp col=sankalp
> has come back to life.
> Now after replacing the drive we run repair. This data will be propagated to
> all nodes.
> Note: This is still a problem even if we run repair every gc grace.
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