William, If the solution from Binh works for you can you please submit a ticket to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA
The error message could be better if that is the case. Cheers ----------------- Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Developer New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 22/01/2013, at 9:16 AM, Binh Nguyen <binhn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi William, > > I also saw this one before but it always happened in my case when I have only > Data and Index files. The problem goes away when I have all another files > (Compression, Filter...) > > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:36 AM, William Oberman <ober...@civicscience.com> > wrote: > I'm running 1.1.6 from the datastax repo. > > I ran sstable2json and got the following error: > Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOError: java.io.IOException: dataSize of > 7020023552240793698 starting at 993981393 would be larger than file > /var/lib/cassandra/data/XXXXX-Data.db length 7502161255 > at > org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableIdentityIterator.<init>(SSTableIdentityIterator.java:156) > at > org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableIdentityIterator.<init>(SSTableIdentityIterator.java:86) > at > org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableIdentityIterator.<init>(SSTableIdentityIterator.java:70) > at > org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableScanner$KeyScanningIterator.next(SSTableScanner.java:187) > at > org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableScanner$KeyScanningIterator.next(SSTableScanner.java:151) > at > org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableScanner.next(SSTableScanner.java:143) > at > org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableExport.export(SSTableExport.java:309) > at > org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableExport.export(SSTableExport.java:340) > at > org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableExport.export(SSTableExport.java:353) > at > org.apache.cassandra.tools.SSTableExport.main(SSTableExport.java:418) > Caused by: java.io.IOException: dataSize of 7020023552240793698 starting at > 993981393 would be larger than file /var/lib/cassandra/data/XXXXX-Data.db > length 7502161255 > at > org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.SSTableIdentityIterator.<init>(SSTableIdentityIterator.java:115) > ... 9 more > > > I ran it again, and didn't. This makes me worried :-) Does anyone else ever > see this class of error, and does it ever disappear for them? >