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Joshua McKenzie commented on CASSANDRA-7066:
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If we stick with the tmp files approach that's going to add complexity to the
SSTableRewriter story on Windows once we start work on memory-mapped files.
We're weighing a guaranteed increase in complexity (not memory-mapping segments
during rewrite until final write completes for instance) and risk (tmp files
staying around) vs. a potential loss of clarity and flexibility on non-standard
operations (users copying files around manually).
I don't think it's worth it to keep it, personally. As [~benedict] pointed out
- we give people tools so they shouldn't have to muck around with their raw
files manually.
> Simplify (and unify) cleanup of compaction leftovers
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> Key: CASSANDRA-7066
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7066
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Benedict
> Assignee: Stefania
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: compaction
> Fix For: 3.x
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> Currently we manage a list of in-progress compactions in a system table,
> which we use to cleanup incomplete compactions when we're done. The problem
> with this is that 1) it's a bit clunky (and leaves us in positions where we
> can unnecessarily cleanup completed files, or conversely not cleanup files
> that have been superceded); and 2) it's only used for a regular compaction -
> no other compaction types are guarded in the same way, so can result in
> duplication if we fail before deleting the replacements.
> I'd like to see each sstable store in its metadata its direct ancestors, and
> on startup we simply delete any sstables that occur in the union of all
> ancestor sets. This way as soon as we finish writing we're capable of
> cleaning up any leftovers, so we never get duplication. It's also much easier
> to reason about.
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