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C. Scott Andreas updated CASSANDRA-9264:
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Component/s: Core
> Cassandra should not persist files without checksums
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> Key: CASSANDRA-9264
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-9264
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Ariel Weisberg
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 4.x
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> Even if checksums aren't validated on the read side every time it is helpful
> to have them persisted with checksums so that if a corrupted file is
> encountered you can at least validate that the issue is corruption and not an
> application level error that generated a corrupt file.
> We should standardize on conventions for how to checksum a file and which
> checksums to use so we can ensure we get the best performance possible.
> For a small checksum I think we should use CRC32 because the hardware support
> appears quite good.
> For cases where a 4-byte checksum is not enough I think we can look at either
> xxhash64 or MurmurHash3.
> The problem with xxhash64 is that output is only 8-bytes. The problem with
> MurmurHash3 is that the Java implementation is slow. If we can live with
> 8-bytes and make it easy to switch hash implementations I think xxhash64 is a
> good choice because we already ship a good implementation with LZ4.
> I would also like to see hashes always prefixed by a type so that we can swap
> hashes without running into pain trying to figure out what hash
> implementation is present. I would also like to avoid making assumptions
> about the number of bytes in a hash field where possible keeping in mind
> compatibility and space issues.
> Hashing after compression is also desirable over hashing before compression.
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