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Brandon Williams commented on CASSANDRA-17473:
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bq. It seems wrong to me that an sstable could ever be written to while it's in 
a snapshot.

Indeed, that is against C*'s design, and probably not what's actually happening 
here.  Why are you passing --hard-dereference?  This will follow the hard link 
to the original sstable, which is free to be deleted when obsolete by 
compaction.

> sstables changing in snapshots
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-17473
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-17473
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: James Brown
>            Priority: Normal
>
> We use cassandra snapshots and tar to make full backups of our cassandra 
> clusters. Sometimes, tar fails with a message like
> {{tar: 
> data/addresses/addresses-eb0196100b7d11ec852b1541747d640a/snapshots/backup20220318183708/nb-167-big-Data.db:
>  file changed as we read it}}
> This is kind of strange, since we're reading from a snapshot.
> The (very simplified) relevant snippet looks roughly like
> {code:java}
> nice nodetool "${JMX_ARGS[@]}" snapshot -t "$TAG" "${KEYSPACES[@]}"
> tar --hard-dereference -czpf data///snapshots/"$TAG"/{code}
> This happens maybe 1% of the time when taking backups.
> There are no concurrent snapshots going on, but there are concurrent 
> compactions and repairs, of course. If it matters, this cluster _is_ running 
> incremental repairs.
> This is on Cassandra 4.0.3.
> It seems wrong to me that an sstable could ever be written to while it's in a 
> snapshot.



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