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Michael Kjellman commented on CASSANDRA-11349:
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[[email protected]] [~slebresne] [~frousseau] I'm confused here. Why should
repair be special cased over normal compaction in this case? If the times are
different then you *do* still need to resolve it as you need to take the
greater time.
It seems to me the crux of the current patch is to "fix" this by special casing
the comparator to just compare just the max value of the interval during repair
validation:
{code}
// only compare interval, but not deletion time
+ return AbstractCellNameType.this.compare(((RangeTombstone)c1).max,
((RangeTombstone)c2).max);
{code}
I just did my best to merge and compare the code between 2.0 and 2.1 and I'm
still trying to parse how this code is different in 2.0 vs. 2.1... We've been
unable to reproduce this in 2.0 so far, but the bits of the code being touched
here don't seem to be different so I'm trying to understand why 2.1 would hit
this and not 2.0.
Could you please explain a bit more why we we can ignore the timestamp?
> MerkleTree mismatch when multiple range tombstones exists for the same
> partition and interval
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-11349
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-11349
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Fabien Rousseau
> Assignee: Stefan Podkowinski
> Labels: repair
> Fix For: 2.1.x, 2.2.x
>
> Attachments: 11349-2.1.patch
>
>
> We observed that repair, for some of our clusters, streamed a lot of data and
> many partitions were "out of sync".
> Moreover, the read repair mismatch ratio is around 3% on those clusters,
> which is really high.
> After investigation, it appears that, if two range tombstones exists for a
> partition for the same range/interval, they're both included in the merkle
> tree computation.
> But, if for some reason, on another node, the two range tombstones were
> already compacted into a single range tombstone, this will result in a merkle
> tree difference.
> Currently, this is clearly bad because MerkleTree differences are dependent
> on compactions (and if a partition is deleted and created multiple times, the
> only way to ensure that repair "works correctly"/"don't overstream data" is
> to major compact before each repair... which is not really feasible).
> Below is a list of steps allowing to easily reproduce this case:
> {noformat}
> ccm create test -v 2.1.13 -n 2 -s
> ccm node1 cqlsh
> CREATE KEYSPACE test_rt WITH replication = {'class': 'SimpleStrategy',
> 'replication_factor': 2};
> USE test_rt;
> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS table1 (
> c1 text,
> c2 text,
> c3 float,
> c4 float,
> PRIMARY KEY ((c1), c2)
> );
> INSERT INTO table1 (c1, c2, c3, c4) VALUES ( 'a', 'b', 1, 2);
> DELETE FROM table1 WHERE c1 = 'a' AND c2 = 'b';
> ctrl ^d
> # now flush only one of the two nodes
> ccm node1 flush
> ccm node1 cqlsh
> USE test_rt;
> INSERT INTO table1 (c1, c2, c3, c4) VALUES ( 'a', 'b', 1, 3);
> DELETE FROM table1 WHERE c1 = 'a' AND c2 = 'b';
> ctrl ^d
> ccm node1 repair
> # now grep the log and observe that there was some inconstencies detected
> between nodes (while it shouldn't have detected any)
> ccm node1 showlog | grep "out of sync"
> {noformat}
> Consequences of this are a costly repair, accumulating many small SSTables
> (up to thousands for a rather short period of time when using VNodes, the
> time for compaction to absorb those small files), but also an increased size
> on disk.
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