For what its worth. I did this when I had this problem. It didn't work out for me. Perhaps I did something wrong.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 7:04 AM, ifjke <j.kes...@enercast.de> wrote: > >> I found that one of my cassandra nodes died recently (machine hangs). I >> restarted the node an run a nodetool repair, while running it has thrown a >> org.apache.cassandra.io.**compress.**CorruptBlockException. Is there any >> way to recover from this? Or would it be best to delete the nodes contents >> and bootstrap it again? >> > > If you "scrub" this SSTable (either with the online or offline version of > "scrub") it will remove the corrupt data and re-write the rest of the > SSTable which isn't corrupt into a new SSTable. That is probably safer for > your data than deleting the entire set of data on this replica. When that's > done, restart the repair. > > =Rob >