This might not be good news to you. But my experience is that C*
2.X/Windows is not ready for production yet. I've seen various file system
related errors. And in one of the JIRAs I was told major work (or rework)
is done in 3.X to improve C* stability on Windows.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 3:44 AM, Bryan Cheng <br...@blockcypher.com> wrote:

> Hi Alaa,
>
> Sounds like you have problems that go beyond Cassandra- likely filesystem
> corruption or bad disks. I don't know enough about Windows to give you any
> specific advice but I'd try a run of chkdsk to start.
>
> --Bryan
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 5:19 PM, Alaa Zubaidi (PDF) <alaa.zuba...@pdf.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bryan,
>>
>> Changing disk_failure_policy to best_effort, and running nodetool scrub,
>> did not work, it generated another error:
>> java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException
>>
>> Also tried to remove all files (data, commitlog, savedcaches) and restart
>> the node fresh, and still I am getting corruption.
>>
>> and Still nothing that indicate there is a HW issue?
>> All other nodes are fine
>>
>> Regards,
>> Alaa
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:00 PM, Bryan Cheng <br...@blockcypher.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Should also add that if the scope of corruption is _very_ large, and you
>>> have a good, aggressive repair policy (read: you are confident in the
>>> consistency of the data elsewhere in the cluster), you may just want to
>>> decommission and rebuild that node.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 11:55 AM, Bryan Cheng <br...@blockcypher.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Looks like you're doing the offline scrub- have you tried online?
>>>>
>>>> Here's my typical process for corrupt SSTables.
>>>>
>>>> With disk_failure_policy set to stop, examine the failing sstables. If
>>>> they are very small (in the range of kbs), it is unlikely that there is any
>>>> salvageable data there. Just delete them, start the machine, and schedule a
>>>> repair ASAP.
>>>>
>>>> If they are large, then it may be worth salvaging. If the scope of
>>>> corruption is reasonable (limited to a few sstables scattered among
>>>> different keyspaces), set disk_failure_policy to best_effort, start the
>>>> machine up, and run the nodetool scrub. This is online scrub, faster than
>>>> offline scrub (at least of 2.1.12, the last time I had to do this).
>>>>
>>>> Only if all else fails, attempt the very painful offline sstablescrub.
>>>>
>>>> Is the VMWare client Windows? (Trying to make sure its not just the
>>>> host). YMMV but in the past Windows was somewhat of a neglected platform
>>>> wrt Cassandra. I think you'd have a lot easier time getting help if running
>>>> Linux is an option here.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Alaa Zubaidi (PDF) <
>>>> alaa.zuba...@pdf.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Jason,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your input...
>>>>> Thats what I am afraid of?
>>>>> Did you find any HW error in the VMware and HW logs? any indication
>>>>> that the HW is the reason? I need to make sure that this is the reason
>>>>> before asking the customer to spend more money?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Alaa
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Jason Wee <peich...@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> cassandra run on virtual server (vmware)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > I tried sstablescrub but it crashed with hs-err-pid-...
>>>>>> maybe try with larger heap allocated to sstablescrub
>>>>>>
>>>>>> this sstable corrupt i ran into it as well (on cassandra 1.2), first i
>>>>>> try nodetool scrub, still persist, then offline sstablescrub still
>>>>>> persist, wipe the node and it happen again, then i change the hardware
>>>>>> (disk and mem). things went good.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> hth
>>>>>>
>>>>>> jason
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Alaa Zubaidi (PDF)
>>>>>> <alaa.zuba...@pdf.com> wrote:
>>>>>> > Hi,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I have a 16 Node cluster, Cassandra 2.2.1 on Windows, local
>>>>>> installation
>>>>>> > (NOT on the cloud)
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > and I am getting
>>>>>> > Error [CompactionExecutor:2] 2016-08-12 06:51:52, 983 Cassandra
>>>>>> > Daemon.java:183 - Execption in thread Thread[CompactionExecutor:2,1m
>>>>>> ain]
>>>>>> > org.apache.cassandra.io.FSReaderError:
>>>>>> > org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.CorruptSSTableExecption:
>>>>>> > org.apache.cassandra.io.compress.CurrptBlockException:
>>>>>> > (E:\........\la-4886-big-Data.db): corruption detected, chunk at
>>>>>> 4969092 of
>>>>>> > length 10208.
>>>>>> >     at
>>>>>> > org.apache.cassandra.io.util.RandomAccessReader.readBytes(Ra
>>>>>> ndomAccessReader.java:357)
>>>>>> > ~[apache-cassandra-2.2.1.jar:2.2.1]
>>>>>> > ....
>>>>>> > ....
>>>>>> > ERROR [CompactionExecutor:2] ....... FileUtils.java:463 - Existing
>>>>>> > forcefully due to file system exception on startup, disk failure
>>>>>> policy
>>>>>> > "stop"
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I tried sstablescrub but it crashed with hs-err-pid-...
>>>>>> > I removed the corrupted file and started the Node again, after one
>>>>>> day the
>>>>>> > corruption came back again, I removed the files, and restarted
>>>>>> Cassandra, it
>>>>>> > worked for few days, then I ran "nodetool repair" after it finished,
>>>>>> > Cassandra failed again but with commitlog corruption, after
>>>>>> removing the
>>>>>> > commitlog files, it failed again with another sstable corruption.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I was also checking the HW, file system, and memory, the VMware
>>>>>> logs showed
>>>>>> > no HW error, also the HW management logs showed NO problems or
>>>>>> issues.
>>>>>> > Also checked the Windows Logs (Application and System) the only
>>>>>> thing I
>>>>>> > found is on the system logs "Cassandra Service terminated with
>>>>>> > service-specific error Cannot create another system semaphore.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I could not find any thing regarding that error, all comments point
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> > application log.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Any help is appreciated..
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > --
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