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David Boxenhorn commented on CASSANDRA-2264:
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"Why do we need to store additional metadata?"
Is this meta-data already available somewhere?
If I have a bad SSTable I want to know how it got bad. (I want to know that
real bad.) I want as much information as possible - you never know what piece
of information will lead you to the bug. In particular, knowing which process
created it could point me in the right direction, even in the case that it's a
hardware bug.
May I suggest a human-readable -Stat table (perhaps, name-value pairs)
alongside every -Data table, with as much information as possible in it, so
that no special tools would be needed for forensics? Among the information in
the -Stat table would be the SSTable's ancestors (if any) and which process
created it.
I am speaking from the point of view of a somewhat, but not completely, naive
user. Solutions have to be available to people like me. I have a machine which
used to be a bad node that I swapped out of the cluster. The data is still
there. What kinds of tools do I need to enable me to do forensics on that
detached node? If not the above, then what? That's what I want.
> Restore From Snapshot eg: nodetool restore [filename] | ([keyspace]
> [columnfamily])
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> Key: CASSANDRA-2264
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-2264
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 0.7.2
> Reporter: Benjamin Coverston
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> Store additional metadata in the SSTable including:
> generated_by: (From memtable, compaction, or cleanup)
> ancestors: A list of SSTableNames|MD5sum
> When executed it will copy the ancestors from the snapshot directory to the
> data directory.
> If given Keyspace and ColumnFamily arguments it will attempt to restore all
> SSTables in the Keyspace/Columnfamily on that node.
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