On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Glenn Thompson <gatman1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm Glenn Thompson and new to Cassandra. I have been trying to figure out > how to recover from a CorruptBlockException. > ... > One of my nodes must have a hardware problem. Although I've been unable to > find anything wrong via logs, smart, or mce. > ... > The repair, scrub, and decommission all produced Exceptions related to the > same few corrupt files.
Hardware problem sounds relatively likely, especially if you have not crashed your nodes. Only other thing I can think of is an issue with the relationship of the compression library and the JVM. What JVM/JDK are you using, and what compression method is in use on the Column Family? In general the actions you took were reasonable. Do you have the full stack trace? =Rob