I'd be more inclined to suspect a bug in sstable2json. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Terje Marthinussen <tmarthinus...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > we do see occasional row corruptions now and then and especially in hinted > handoffs. > This may be related to fairly long rows (millions of columns) > I was dumping one corrupted hint .db file and I noticed that they do in fact > have values. > The doc say > Subcolumn values are always empty; instead, we store the row data "normally" > The code does > add(path, ByteBufferUtil.EMPTY_BYTE_BUFFER, > System.currentTimeMillis(), cf.metadata().getGcGraceSeconds()); > and if you run sstable2json you will see that columns have values like > "4d8eb49d", > I guess an EMPTY_BYTE_BUFFER is not entirely an empty value. Not such a big > deal, but it may be that we are wasting 4 bytes per hint here? > Just a curiosity I thought I would mention before I forget it. > Terje
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