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Alexander Dejanovski commented on CASSANDRA-14346:
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Two other issues with automated scheduling of repairs would be :
* Rolling upgrades : All repairs would have to be terminated and schedules
stopped as soon as the cluster is running mixed versions
* Expansion to new DCs : if repair triggers during the expansion to a new DC
before rebuild has fully ended on all nodes, the cluster will be crushed by the
entropy repair will find. Since many users will not be aware that the cluster
is constantly repairing itself, this is likely to happen a lot.
The latter could be mitigated if a rebuild is detected and appropriate measures
were taken. I'm not sure how we can detect this flawlessly though and there
would still be many cases where the cluster has been expanded but rebuild isn't
started right after.
It could be argued that any scheduled repair system is subject to the same
caveats, but the difference is that those systems are setup by a user, not by
the database itself, which should then be responsible for protecting itself
against such scenarios.
> Scheduled Repair in Cassandra
> -----------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-14346
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-14346
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Repair
> Reporter: Joseph Lynch
> Priority: Major
> Labels: CommunityFeedbackRequested
> Fix For: 4.0
>
> Attachments: ScheduledRepairV1_20180327.pdf
>
>
> There have been many attempts to automate repair in Cassandra, which makes
> sense given that it is necessary to give our users eventual consistency. Most
> recently CASSANDRA-10070, CASSANDRA-8911 and CASSANDRA-13924 have all looked
> for ways to solve this problem.
> At Netflix we've built a scheduled repair service within Priam (our sidecar),
> which we spoke about last year at NGCC. Given the positive feedback at NGCC
> we focussed on getting it production ready and have now been using it in
> production to repair hundreds of clusters, tens of thousands of nodes, and
> petabytes of data for the past six months. Also based on feedback at NGCC we
> have invested effort in figuring out how to integrate this natively into
> Cassandra rather than open sourcing it as an external service (e.g. in Priam).
> As such, [~vinaykumarcse] and I would like to re-work and merge our
> implementation into Cassandra, and have created a [design
> document|https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RV4rOrG1gwlD5IljmrIq_t45rz7H3xs9GbFSEyGzEtM/edit?usp=sharing]
> showing how we plan to make it happen, including the the user interface.
> As we work on the code migration from Priam to Cassandra, any feedback would
> be greatly appreciated about the interface or v1 implementation features. I
> have tried to call out in the document features which we explicitly consider
> future work (as well as a path forward to implement them in the future)
> because I would very much like to get this done before the 4.0 merge window
> closes, and to do that I think aggressively pruning scope is going to be a
> necessity.
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